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Stratolaunch's website now reveals that the company has reinvented itself as a builder, tester and operator of hypersonic vehicles — those that can travel at least five times the speed of sound, or Mach 5. The huge plane is key to this new mission, hauling vehicles aloft to test various payloads in the extreme environments imposed by hypersonic flight. Those vehicles will include Stratolaunch's Talon-A, a 28-foot-long (8.5 m), 6,000-lb. (2,722 kilograms) reusable craft capable of reaching Mach 6. The huge dual-fuselage plane — which used to be called Roc, but is now apparently known as the Stratolaunch Carrier —...

'Witty' Worm Wrecks Computers The worm targets Windows computers that run specific security firewalls. By Brian Krebs washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Saturday, March 20, 2004; 7:02 PM A quickly spreading Internet worm destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of personal computers worldwide Saturday morning by exploiting a security flaw in a firewall program designed to protect PCs from online threats, computer experts said.

Condolences to the family of this Trooper. Another one of our Finest gone. Radio reports state that the suspect was apprehended. Guess he will get 15 to 20 and be back out as a 40 something year old felon, according to NJ law!

I have a question about Free Republic's URLs, in relation to various measures we are all using to protect our workstations/pcs/servers from Trojan Horse/Worm/Virus threats. As you know, another major problem related to W32.Blaster.Worm happened across the US and ASIA yesterday, and there are variations to this trojan horse worm which not only writes fake keys (e.g. "windows auto update") to the registry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - MICROSOFT - WINDOWS - CURRENTVERSION - RUN" (*the RUN folder is key, this is where they put the stuff as gateway to building a series of drop files which use mIRC type tools...