Simon Willison’s Weblog

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 / botnets, bruce-schneier, hackers, malware, security, storm, worm

MySpace superworm creator sentenced to probation, community service (via) samy is still my hero.

# 4th February 2007, 7:03 pm / myspace, samy, worm, xss

Xanga Hit By Script Worm (in December) (via) Description of an XSS worm that hit Xanga last month.

# 21st January 2006, 8:47 pm / security, worm, xanga, xss

Blaster and the great blackout (via) Bruce Schneier writes for Salon.com

# 17th December 2003, 3:10 am / bruce-schneier, security, worm