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Analysis of the Witty Worm

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the dull-worms-envious dept.

DavidMoore writes "The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) and the University of California, San Diego Computer Science Department have an analysis of the recent Witty worm. Among other things, Witty was started in an organized manner with an order of magnitude more ground-zero hosts than any previous Internet worm."

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  1. "witty" worm by benna · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is the best named worm i've ever seen. When I first read headlines about it they said things like "witty worm attacks firewall." It took me a while to realize that was the name of the worm and not a judgement by the reporter (no I didn't read the articles)

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  2. analysis of the witty worm by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    analysis of the witty worm has revealed that it is wittier than most posts on slashdot

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  3. Re:More Ground Zero hosts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    My god he's right! This is the start of the Al Qaeda internet terrorism initiative that non-ratings-concerned-non-sensationalist Fox News and MSNBC warned us about! Emmanual Goldstine is their leader and he will be issuing a communique to the Ministry of Truth shortly. Everyone should PANIC!

    Immediately put on your gas-masks and have your anthrax treatments ready! But, do not disconnect your machine from the network. Continue buying and supporting the economy. If you don't, THE TERRORISTS WIN.

  4. Re:buggy code by Himring · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's a bug, in the worm, ... in the bottom of the sea....

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  5. Re:More Ground Zero hosts? by Otter · · Score: 3, Funny
    You know what this means -- it's up to us Lunix nerds to save civilization! Just like Frodo and Sam!

    You guys go ahead. I'll catch up with you as soon as my 'emerge -u kde' finishes.

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