Homeland Security site misses the slammer worm by a hair

Brian Densmore DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Wed Jan 29 13:55:41 CST 2003


Nah, they just configured apache to report it is IIS on W2K. Security by
misinformation. Hey that is what these guys do for a living ...
spread misinformation.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Herrmann [mailto:kclug at ItDepends.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:17 PM
> To: Kclug
> Subject: Re: Homeland Security site misses the slammer worm by a hair
> 
> 
> This has got to be a honeypot, don't you think:
> 
> "www.nsa.gov - Microsoft IIS on Windows 2000* - Lingualistek"
> 
> Then this:
> "/The website of the National Security Agency shows up as 
> being hosted 
> by Lingualistek, a small tech business in Maryland that runs its own 
> site on Apache and Linux. on Linux."/
> 
> Very curious.
> 
> Peace,
> Jim
> 
> Brian Densmore wrote:
> 
> >http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/1831240
> >
> >
> >"Three OS's from corporate-kings in their towers of glass, 
> >Seven from valley-lords where orchards used to grow, 
> >Nine from dotcoms doomed to die, 
> >one from the dark lord Gates on his dark throne 
> >In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie. 
> >one OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, 
> >one OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, 
> >In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie."    john thrum
> >
> >
> >
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