Feds Working to Stop Worms

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."

Comments

Who the heck wrote this?

[Gentoo Fan]

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.

This is Microsoft's Job

[jblaze]

Why are we paying to have the government fix Microsoft's bugs?

"Mmmmm Propaganda Articles" - H. Simpson

[Dolemite_the_Wiz]

Is is me or does this article read like the cross between a propaganda article, a typical narrative from a Batman TV episode ("Will our heros be able to complete the task? Stay Tuned Bat-Fans!!!"), and a recruitment Ad for the FBI, CIA, or any of the Armed forces?

Dolemite