re: [IWAR] YAHOO hacked

From: David Kennedy (76702.3557at_private)
Date: Tue Dec 09 1997 - 21:20:12 PST

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    >>Don't buy into this one, purely a media virus. --MW
    
    Boy you got that right.  Our productivity today went to zero today with the
    press calling.  One of the people quoted works for me.  This is a juvenile
    example of a scenario that was speculated about at one of the lunch tables
    at
    the InfoWar Conf back in September (and probably long before that too).
    
    See the media sharks in a frenzy about this.  Facts: web site vandalism
    (yawn).  No trojan horse or virus involved, just the claim.
    
    Now....search and replace Yahoo for United States Federal Reserve.  And
    instead of freeing Kevin Mitnick, lets threaten to crash the Fed's systems
    unless National Front for Pro-Choice for Gay Disabled Unborn Whales gets
    <pick
    a number> $.
    
    Imagine how Wall Street would react in the time between when the story
    first
    emerged and when it can be de-bunked.
    
    Yee..Haw!
    
    Regards,
    
    Dave Kennedy [CISSP]
    Protect what you connect
    Look both ways before crossing the Net
    National Computer Security Association
    
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