Fw: [IP] Malware kills 154

2010-08-23 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Forwarded from Dave Farber's Interesting People list Begin forwarded message: From: David Byrden farb...@byrden.com Date: August 22, 2010 5:28:55 PM EDT To: d...@farber.net Subject: Malware kills 154 Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a

Re: Fw: [IP] Malware kills 154

2010-08-23 Thread Peter Gutmann
Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com forwards: Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was infected with malware

Re: Fw: [IP] Malware kills 154

2010-08-23 Thread John Levine
Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was infected with malware http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38790670/ns/technology_and_science-security/?gt1=43001 This was very poorly

Re: [IP] Malware kills 154

2010-08-23 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Aug 23, 2010, at 11:50 30AM, John Levine wrote: Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was infected with malware

Re: [IP] Malware kills 154

2010-08-23 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Aug 23, 2010, at 11:11 13AM, Peter Gutmann wrote: Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com forwards: Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was infected with malware

Re: Fw: [IP] Malware kills 154

2010-08-23 Thread Thierry Moreau
Peter Gutmann wrote: Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com forwards: Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was infected with malware

Re: towards https everywhere and strict transport security (was: Has there been a change in US banking regulations recently?)

2010-08-23 Thread bmanning
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:51:01AM -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: On 08/22/2010 06:56 AM, Jakob Schlyter wrote: There are a lot of work going on in this area, including how to use secure DNS to associate the key that appears in a TLS server's certificate with the the intended domain name

Re: Fw: [IP] Malware kills 154

2010-08-23 Thread John Ioannidis
On 8/23/2010 5:17 PM, Thierry Moreau wrote: Commercial avionics certification looks like the most demanding among industrial sectors requiring software certification (public transportation, high energy incl. nuclear, medical devices, government IT security in some countries, electronic