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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."
I seriously hope you are joking.
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That's the last thing in the world I want happening in a production environment. Random companies patching random servers with 0 testing. .
For example look at the service packs from microsoft, many larger companies have yet to, and are unable to roll out service pack one for windows 2003 because they are still putting it through testing to make sure it doesn't break their existing setup. (this isn't to say they haven't patched as microsoft makes hotfixes and patches availble for people in these situations that can be applied as needed).