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To: Dan3 who wrote (171110)	9/18/2002 11:19:22 AM
From: Windsock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Linux has a huge security hole that could shut down even corporate Internet connections. Who is going to fix this major security problem? Some hobbyist programmers currently working on AMD's Floperon in their spare time? zdnet.com.com The Linux Slapper worm had compromised more than 6,700 servers as of early Monday morning, and it continues to create a peer-to-peer attack network that could shut down even corporate Internet connections. Unlike past worms, which typically tried only to compromise computers on the Internet, the Slapper worm has a grander scheme in mind: to create a large peer-to-peer network that could be used to hit other servers. A computer that gets infected becomes part of the network and could be commanded, or used to command the other computers on the network, to attack, said Al Huger, senior director of engineering for the incident response team at security company Symantec. "A number like 6,700 hosts is very significant for a (distributed denial-of-service) network," he said. "With the pipes these (infected servers) are connected to, this network could easily take a large enterprise off the Internet."