Subject: E-mail CERT Alert

From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 14:19:02 -0500 (EST)

Regarding the following item from Edupage, does anyone have the details?

Don Sugarman
[email-masked]

MORE SECURITY PROBLEMS ON THE INTERNET
The Computer Emergency Response Team has issued a public warning on a
vulnerability in some 20 commonly used e-mail programs that run on Unix
operating systems.  The advisory said the latest discovery could allow a
hacker to "read any file on the system, overwrite or destroy files."  The
ultimate solution to these recurrent security problems, says Purdue
University professor Eugene Spafford, is for consumers to demand better
security features from software manufacturers.  In the absence of improved
software, "are we going to continue seeing problems? You bet."  (Wall
Street Journal 2/23/95 B8)