5 items tagged “worm”
The Storm Worm. Bruce Schneier describes the Storm Worm, a fantastically advanced piece of malware that’s been spreading for nearly a year and is proving almost impossible to combat. Its effects are virtually invisible but infected machines are added to a multi-million machine botnet apparently controlled by anonymous Russian hackers.
6th October 2007, 12:25 am
MySpace superworm creator sentenced to probation, community service (via) samy is still my hero.
4th February 2007, 7:03 pm
Xanga Hit By Script Worm (in December) (via) Description of an XSS worm that hit Xanga last month.
21st January 2006, 8:47 pm
It’s only going to get worse
This analysis of the spread of the witty worm is fascinating for a whole bunch of different reasons. [... 395 words]
Blaster and the great blackout (via) Bruce Schneier writes for Salon.com
17th December 2003, 3:10 am