[Ansteorra-announce] Expect erratic Internet service for the next few days

[Michael Tucker]

For the skeptics among you (it's ok, I'm a skeptic myself) who have been asking:
"What are your sources? Have you confirmed this to be true?", here you go:

<http://www.sans.org/>
<http://www.incidents.org/>
<http://www.cert.org/>

Here's a message from a fellow sysadmin who oversees the traffic to the White
House's Internet space:
> Yesterday (pre-worm), about 1,600 different remote hosts attempted to
> connect to web servers in the lbv.gov IP space for which no server was
> listening.  This is the typical background rate (previous day was 1,300).
>
> So far today, it's been [293,000] different remote hosts.
>
> Vern

For what it's worth: mundanely I'm a Sun Certified Systems Engineer, employeed
by a small company in Houston. Part of my job is to oversee our Internet
connection, administer our Web and FTP servers, and attend to Internet-related
security concerns. I actually *do* know what I'm talking about, at least in this
field. :-)

Yours,
Michael Silverhands

Michael Tucker wrote:
>
> Greetings:
>
> Just a "heads up" to everyone to expect erratic Internet service for the next
> few days. Someone has released a "worm", a malicious computer program, that is
> spreading like wildfire throughout the Internet as I write this. [snip]