Witty Worm Kick-Start Methods Revealed

voixderaison writes "Security Focus reveals more details about the methods used to seed the Witty worm last year. You might want to read the analysis at CAIDA for background and refresher on this groundbreaking worm, which spread very rapidly through a small population of systems, and then waxed their hard drives. A flaw in its random number generator seems to have protected 10% of the internet from the Witty worm."

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[anandpur]

Because we are uniquely situated to receive traffic That's why it is not slashdoted yet. BTW thses are the links to the large maps

http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/witty/anima tions/world_big-witty_2h.gif

http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/witty/anima tions/usa_big-witty_2h.gif