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Witty Worm Kick-Start Methods Revealed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the know-your-foe dept.

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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  1. I'm not paranoid by It+doesn't+come+easy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just because I run two separate software based firewalls that have no relationship to each other on my XP machine (and I'm NOT talking about the lame-o one that comes with the system, so there)...

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    The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.