5 items tagged “worm”
2007
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
2006
Xanga Hit By Script Worm (in December) (via) Description of an XSS worm that hit Xanga last month. # 21st January 2006, 8:47 pm
2004
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]2003
Blaster and the great blackout (via) Bruce Schneier writes for Salon.com # 17th December 2003, 3:10 am