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Hmmm....

Forgot about that. Good memory Calpernia. Do you think the current attack is related to the stolen code? Possible I guess.

FWIU (from what I understand), the current attack focuses on a flaw in the IIS code from Microsoft. I haven't seen anything that would indicate that the stolen Cisco code is being used to propagate the attack. Not that it's not happening, I just haven't seen any reports to that effect.

It just this seems like a rather large attack and I'm wondering if it might just be a precursor to another planned attack. Perhaps some type of 'go' signal or something.

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They killed a railway engineer hostage.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Suspected Kashmiri militants killed an engineer working for India's state-run railway and his brother by slitting their throats after holding them hostage for two days, police said on Friday.
The gruesome murders came two days before top diplomats from India and Pakistan are due to meet in New Delhi for talks on the Kashmir dispute, at the heart of half a century of enmity between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

Sudhir Kumar, working with Indian railway firm IRCON, his brother and two other men were abducted by gunmen while traveling in a car on Wednesday in Pulwama district, south of Srinagar, Kashmir's main city.

"The body of Sudhir Kumar and his brother with their throats slit were found in a Pulwama village," a police spokesman said.

Police accused Muslim rebels of the abduction and killing but said the motive was not clear. No militant group has claimed responsibility.

The two men kidnapped along with Kumar and his brother were released unharmed later on Wednesday, police said. They were Muslim. Kumar and his brother were Hindu, police said.

Authorities say violence in Indian Kashmir has steadily dropped since India and Pakistan, who have fought two wars over the Himalayan region, began a peace process last year.

But on average a half a dozen people are killed every day in shootouts and explosions in the Muslim-majority region where a separatist revolt against Indian rule began in 1989.

Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will begin talks on Sunday, the first over Kashmir since a failed summit between Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in mid-2001

Could both flaws be combined for a simultaneous attack?

Of interest: http://www.goexcelglobal.com/NJ_DefenseForce

See Documents and Downloads, under Hacking

The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11

Although secondary to the human tragedy resulting from the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, telecommunications issues were significant that day both in terms of damage (physical as well as functional) and of mounting response and recovery efforts. The Internet has come to be a major component of the nation’s (and the world’s) communications and information infrastructure. People rely on it for business, social, and personal activities of many kinds, and government depends on it for communications and transactions with the media and the public. Thus there is interest in how the Internet performed and was used on September 11. Unlike the situation with longer-standing telecommunications services (notably the public telephone network), there are few regulations, policies, or practices related to the Internet’s functioning in emergency situations. Nor are there many publicly available data to help policy makers or the industry itself assess the Internet’s performance—either on a continuing basis or in the aftermath of a crisis. No regular system exists for reporting failures and outages, nor is there agreement on metrics of performance.

Some experiences are shared informally among network operators or in forums such as the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), but that information is not readily accessible for national planning or research purposes. The decentralized architecture of the Internet—although widely characterized as one of the Internet’s strengths—further confounds the difficulty of collecting comprehensive data about how the Internet is performing. It is therefore unsurprising that no definitive analyses exist on the impact of September 11 on the Internet, though a few conflicting anecdotal reports about its performance that day—such as several presentations at NANOG indicating relatively little effect and press accounts suggesting that the impact was severe —have appeared.

Responding to an initial request in early 2002 from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group in Data Communication (ACM SIGCOMM), the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) established the Committee on the Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from the Impact of September 11.[3] The study’s goals were twofold: to organize an exploratory workshop for gathering data and accounts of experiences pertinent to the impact of September 11 on the Internet, and to prepare a report that summarizes the Internet’s performance that day and offers conclusions on better preparing for and responding to future emergencies.

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