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Worms Going Further, Faster

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-for-your-attention dept.

Major Byte writes "Rob Kolstad's MOTD (pdf) column in Usenix login; passes along a few distilled factiods from a CAIDA analysis of the 'Sappire/Slammer' Worm. When it was at full blast it was scanning over 3 billion systems per hour--a speed that 'a "better" vulnerability would have enabled infection of the entire internet in 15 minutes, a "flash worm" or a "Warhol Worm."' I think 'better' to mean 'able to infect across a lot of platforms.'"

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  1. Re:Critiquing your example. by knobmaker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I appreciate the correction. You learn something everyday, if you can keep the beans out of your ears.

  2. Re:Oh no! Shut the Interweb off! by knobmaker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I appreciate the correction.