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Date:      Thu, 11 Dec 1997 22:43:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: YAHOO
Message-ID:  <199712120643.WAA25571@burka.rdy.com>
In-Reply-To: <199712120552.WAA18569@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Dec 11, 97 10:52:39 pm"

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Warner Losh writes:
> 
> OK.  While suffering from mild insomnia caused by jet lag in the hotel
> in London, I was watching CNN Europe's report about cyber crime.
> While most of it was typical media tripe, there was a refrence to a
> recent break-in at YAHOO.  Anybody know anything about this?  Do we
> have another hole to worry about?

I've heard that it was modem breakin (lousy user password). 
I don't know all the details and I'm pretty sure - nobody knows.
And if somebody knows - they sure, as hell, won't tell us :-)

> Also, what is the status of things.  Looks like from the mail that was
> sent while I was gone that the f00f bug has gone out (but that alan
> cox sent us an improvement for the intel workaround that i wasn't sure
> if it was integrated, plus bde comments).  Also looks like land is
> waiting to firm up before it is being sent out.
> 
> Guido, anything else pending that I missed in the 2000 mail messages I
> got while I was gone?
> 
> Warner
> 

-- dima



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