msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) (11/16/88)
I haven't seen this call on useNet yet, so I'll post it. Follow-ups to news.sysadmin. ----------------------------- >From luken@spot.CC.Lehigh.EDU Tue Nov 15 21:17:36 1988 To: VIRUS-L@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1988 9:39:27 EST >From: Ken van Wyk <luken@spot.CC.Lehigh.EDU> Subject: FBI request for Internet Worm info This was found recently in Usenet newsgroup comp.protocols.tcp-ip: >From: TomZ@DDN1.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: FBI Contact re: November Internet Virus Date: 14 Nov 88 05:03:00 GMT Were YOU hit by the November Internet Virus? The FBI wants to hear from you! The Federal Bureau of Investigation is attempting to gather critical information necessary to pursue this case under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. (This is the statute that makes it a federal crime to penetrate a computer owned by or run on the behalf of the Government.) The FBI Case Agent has asked the Defense Data Network Project Management Office to collect the names of organizations and Points of Contact (names and phone numbers) that were hit by the Virus. The Defense Communications Agency has established an E-Mail address for this collection at: INFO-VACC [at] BEAST.DDN.MIL Points of Contact should expect to be contacted by their local FBI agents for dispositions due to the wide geographical area involved. I * M * P * O * R * T * A * N * T The FBI needs this information to pursue the case. If we expect their aid in the future, we need to help them now. PLEASE GIVE THIS MESSAGE MAXIMUM DISTRIBUTION; NOT EVERYONE IS ON "TCP-IP"! /s/ Tom Zmudzinski DDN Security Officer (703) 285-5206 -------------------------- Mark -- Mark Smith (alias Smitty) "Be careful when looking into the distance, RPO 1604; P.O. Box 5063 that you do not miss what is right under your nose." New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5063 {backbone}!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu R.I.P. Individual Freedoms - 11/8/88