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Curious Yellow, Superworm

Posted by Hemos on from the destroying-the-world dept.

jpmccord writes "Brandon Wiley's white paper, Curious Yellow, explains how "a superworm -- a worm that coordinates it actions among infected hosts and launches a massive distributed denial of service attack on any hosts it can't infect using those it can" (via disLEXia, a weblog by Maximillian Dornseif). The "doomsday scenario" frightens "even us", says Dornseif. An accompanying discussion rebukes Wiley's article a bit. Aaron Swartz's light-hearted take is rather entertaining: "So go read it now and find out how you can take over the whole Internet. And if you're going to, could you give me 24 hours notice?""

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  1. Or post to slashdot... by morie · · Score: 4, Funny

    It could also submit every computer it couldn't infect as containing something of interest to the slashdot community. Who needs a ddos attack?

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    1. Re:Or post to slashdot... by OrangeSpyderMan · · Score: 4, Funny

      Even if it just submitted the same story over and over again, it would probably manage to get it published a good few times :-) Enjoy.

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  2. Well. Okay. by torpor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then I guess there's nothing we can do. The Internet is doomed.

    Still, I know I'll be able to read about the new one on MSNBC.newtld a day or two afterwards ... after I get a new Passport ID, that is.

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  3. tomorrow by anshil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on Pinky, let's prepare for tomorrow evening.

    Why Brain? What are we going to do tomorrow evening?

    Same as every evening, we try to take over the Internet!

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  4. New Slashdot Worm found in wild! by MartyJG · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anti-virus companies Norton and Sophos today announced they had spotted a new virus in the wild. According to anti-virus experts a new virus known only as "Curious Yellow" has been attacking the popular Slashdot.org site.

    The site has already been hit twice, with a story appearing on their main 'articles' section. The virus has been spoofing known slashdot editors such as 'Hemos' and 'michael'. The site has yet to comment on these attacks, but have warned there is a risk that further variants may attack their 'slashback' section later this week.

    So far there is no known cure for this virus.

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