Interesting Read : The ultimate computer worm?

[mk76]

THE FIRST SURPRISING thing about the worm that landed in Philip Porras’ digital petri dish 18 months ago was how fast it grew.

He first spotted it on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. Computer-security experts around the world who didn’t take notice of it that first day soon did. Porras is part of a loose community of high-level geeks who guard computer systems and monitor the health of the Internet by maintaining “honeypots,†unprotected computers irresistible to “malware,†or malicious software. There are also “honeynets,†which are networks of honeypots.

Read full story here : TheWeek.com

 

[astrono_me]

Actually that is one poorly written article. And that analogy of star trek was plain lame.

 

[mk76]

+1 to that.. but the facts are interesting. People who wrote conficker are so talented ...

 

[Lord Nemesis]

Conficker is a real PITA. We had recurring attacks on our office networks.

 

[soggy316]

+1 to Conficker Hate

It took me the better part of a week to get rid of that thing last year, luckily I had backups of all the infected exe files.

 

[X-Rebel]

A very nice & interesting read ... sounds like a cyber war ....