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Feds Working to Stop Worms

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the information-superhighway-patrol dept.

mbenzi writes "This article from GovExec describes how the feds worked to prevent a worm that could have been orders of magnitude worse than Code Red. Short on details, but an interesting timeline."

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  1. Who the heck wrote this? by Gentoo+Fan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With a gang of zombies at his command, the creator of a superworm could mob a Web site or computer system, flooding it with bogus electronic transmissions until it drowned in the data torrent.

    Tens of thousands of computers containing now-dormant Leaves worms await instructions from their master. Should they ever again awaken, a posse will be waiting.

    With writing like this it sounds like someone trying to scare up funds to keep this department up and running.