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Happy New Year from BugTraq
From: aleph1 () DFW NET (Aleph One)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:44:17 -0600
Another year is upon us. Last year was a busy one for us in the security community. I took over BugTraq and revived it from the dead. The are now over 6000 BugTraq subscribers. We saw denial of service attacks go from ping flooding to syn flooding. We experienced the ping of death. We went through more versions of sendmail than ever before. We saw the rise of groups like Scriptors of Doom and their HP Bug of the Week. Buffer overflows took center stage this year. BugTraq reported four or five times the number of vulnerabilities reported by CERT. What we hope to see next year: Less vulnerabilities! Higher quality software. More responsive and responsible vendors. Credit, where credit is due. A vulnerability database. A safe programming tutorial. Some of these we know we probably wont get. Others we are working on making happen. Whatever happens, this will be an interesting year. May your servers be secure, and your firewalls tight. Aleph One / aleph1 () dfw net http://underground.org/ KeyID 1024/948FD6B5 Fingerprint EE C9 E8 AA CB AF 09 61 8C 39 EA 47 A8 6A B8 01
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