On Thu, 11 May 2000, John "E.R." Jasen wrote:

> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Miss Yvette Seifert Hirth, CCP, CDP wrote:
> 
> > Our technical contact called me this morning and told me that we were
> > hacked.  Our news server was sending out some Hindu newspaper.  Apparently,
> > some Indian nationals hijacked our news port.
> > 
> > Does anyone know of any news port susceptibilities?  We're BSD Unix,
> > methinks I'll keep our versions and such private for now.
> 
> Using Netwin DNEWS? INN hasn't had a vulnerability listed since 1999.

        Speaking about Netwin DNEWS, is anyone here using a sucking
feed?  If so, how does one prevent it from generating the DNews is now
downloading articles but instead download the articles silently?


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