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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (29969)	1/10/1998 10:13:00 PM
From: Jeff Jordan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

Welcome!SI was offline Friday night from 8pm Eastern until 5:30am this morning. We've been attacked. Attacked??? In what way? Glen, Go to the home page on SI....look to this message.... They have been hacked... Bonk! A New Windows Security Hole by Michael Stutz 10:30am 9.Jan.98.PST Microsoft is scrambling this morning to fix a newly re-opened security hole that can crash any Windows 95 or NT machine connected to the Internet or any other TCP/IP network. The attack, named "bonk" - after the program that unleashes it - is a variant of an earlier security hole that creates a "denial of service" attack and essentially freezes the system. Bonk is a variant of the "teardrop" hole, which was initially reported by the Computer Emergency Response Team on 16 Dec of last year. Teardrop fools a machine into performing lots of operations that it shouldn't, Knox said. Bonk does the same: it sends corrupt UDP (User Datagram Protocol) packets to the target machine - overwhelming and crashing the system. JJ