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Re: Reporting Internet incidents to Homeland Security

  • From: David Lesher
  • Date: Thu Apr 03 11:08:34 2003

Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
> 
> 
> 
> : "Many incidents can be handled by the private sector, but there is current
> : discussion about how to better define expectations on the government side
> : and to institutionalize what type of incidents will be automatically
> : reported to the government, Schmidt said."
> 
> What kind of  incidents should be reported to gov? DDoS done by script
> kiddies don't live in the USA for example?
> 
> Webhosting folks should report the script kiddies using free homepages to
> host trojans?

Every 419 letter; they are clearly cover for a 5th column attack.

And most significant [given Schmidt's recent past], be sure he knows
of every "Latest Microsoft Security Update" you get....



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