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Re: NIMDA Horror

To: Brian Longwe <blongwe at psg.com>
Subject: Re: NIMDA Horror
From: Rob Hunter <robh at za.uu.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:31:03 +0200 (SAST)
Cc: Agbenya Adotey <gagbey at ghana.com>, <afnog at afnog.org>
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Hi

> On this note, does any country in Africa have a CSIRT (Computer
> Security Incident Response Team) that looks at IP/Internet security
> issues at a national level?

what would they do about it? The only reason this plague is so badly
affecting people is because of uneducated admins and badly written
software.

Maybe a CSIRT would be useful for other threats, but my suggestion would
be to blackhole any nets infected with these things.

Regards

--Rob


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