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Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party
Jack writes "ITO is reporting that Sober is scheduled to attack on January 2006 - the data coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party: "The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm. The attack date coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party.""
Wow. Does this mean the thread is over before it's even started???
Lost: Sig, white with black letters. No collar. Reward if found!
The article summary itself brings up nazi's so by all rights this thread is dead before it even gets started.
:)
Could have at least thrown us a bone
No Comment.
These summaries are getting worse and worse.
If you only have two sentences, leave it at that! You don't need to put them in the summary twice in the hopes nobody will notice.
Well, that's silly. Everyone knows that drunken attacks always go over better...
It's also the day that Buddy Holly released his last album. What the hell does any of this have to do with anything. Sheesh.
I mean they had really cool looking uniforms but there's no connection between their philosophies and what these people seem to want. Look up Fascism people! You virus writers won't actually like it. Honest!
Stewie Griffin announced a sexy party to be held the same day.
The linked article doesn't imply Sober has anything to do with Nazism. Was the Sober writer a Neo-Nazi? If so, it would've made much more sense to include this in the article or submitter's comments so the "Nazi anniversary" comment would mean something.
You know what else happens on 5 January 2006? This guy turns 75. Maybe the Sober writer also hates The Godfather! Who knows?
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I think a more appropriate date would be February 27. The date that led to the total 0wnage of Weimar Germany.
There's nothing like a good gunfight to uplift the spirit--Calvin
Now there's going to be all sorts of virus / worm stuff related to important dates, like July 4 or the founding of the USSR, or whatever. I thought the whole date-triggered thing went out of fashion with the Michelangelo virus.
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Are we sure that they writer of this worm was a neo-nazi? Because otherwise, it is probably a coincidence. I mean, if you look at the whole of human history, every day could probably be the anniversary of some terrible tragedy. We could end up saying things like "Oh no, this worm attack date coincides with the 193rd anniversary of the start of the war of 1812"
...accueillir nos nouveaux suzerains nazis.
Circumcision is child abuse.
I have a book that lists all the "significant" events that happened on the same day as my birthday. Next virus that does something on May 4th, I'll have a something for the slashdot editors!
I agree - the Nazis had the best dress sense of any governmental organisation *ever* - some seriously good look! Bit of a shame that they developed into a bunch of xenophobic genocidal maniacs.
Guess this was a bad time to try out my new Little Frenchie Anti-Virus Software.
Trolls: The high-tech version of those morons that scrawl obscenities in public bathrooms.
the 64th anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Habor.
OMFG... conspiracy! There must be a connection somewhere.
Just let me think of it, and I'll get back to you...
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
I understand that the worm will start on January 5th, but you'd think they could at least give you a reason why they picked January 5th!
//FIXME: Bad
I call Godwin!
The grave insecurity of the day is the Sober worm which is currently pushing nearly 25% of all email traffic at the moment. Unlike previous worms, Sober can disable the Windows Firewall and Symantec Antivirus. Interestingly, patched machines are not vulnerable to the exploits used by this worm.
Again... please specify the OS!
They could be celebrating the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit! Or the first PC by Hewlett Packard! Maybe the birth of Marilyn Manson! Lots of possibilities... or maybe, just maybe... it has no meaning.
That its the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party. Three times for emphasis.
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"The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm."
See: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/widespread
Main Entry: widespread
Pronunciation: 'wId-'spred
Function: adjective
1 : widely diffused or prevalent - ex: "widespread public interest"
2 : widely extended or spread out - ex: "low, widespread hood and fenders"br>
The Grammar Nazis never miss a chance at spoiling an event.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
I notice that the list did not have the formation of the nazi party on it.
LOL!!! 5=E(rror)???
perhaps next year when it's the 88th anniversary eh?
-if at first you don't succeed, stay the heck away from paragliding.
For all of you posting all the other events that happend on Jan. 5th, please RTFA: "The company says the attack could have a significant damaging effect on internet traffic, as the worm designed to send politically motivated spam from tens of millions of e-mail addresses. The next phase of the multi-phased Sober worm has been discovered by iDefense using reverse-engineering techniques in the most recent version of the worm." The article coins another brilliant 'ism: hacktivism before going on to the above article. The connection to the Nazi anniversary was not just pulled out of thin air. So, please close the wikopedia page and put up your Farmer's Almanac and step away from the keyboard. Thank you.
Do what is right and let the consequence follow
What a crock!I've ben a Security Manager long before security was a vogue job and long before kooks in caves were blowing up our buildings. Point - I have yet to see a single bonafide case of cyber terrorism. And don't say web site defacement. the effort involved wouldn't be worth the effort and the systems in the public domain (utilities) have a lot of safeguards that would make it unlikely for an intruder (even one not currently running around with explosives strapped to himself)to directly control said systems. It's Republican media hype designed to bolster an unwinnable war against an opponent not restricted to specific boundries. Go home!
It's actually the 528th anniversary of the Battle of Nancy when Burgundy became part of France.
Sober was written by Burgundish insurgents...
/looks up "Cleveland Steamer" in Roger's Profanisaurus
You, sir, are one sick, sick, puppy.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
...and can't check wikipedia themselves:
1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
1477 - Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy becomes part of France.
1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
1527 - Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist.
1554 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1675 - Battle of Colmar, French army beats Brandenburg.
1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides.
1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead.
1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
1912 - Prague Party Conference
1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
1918 - Free Committee for a German Workers' Peace founded, which would become the Nazi party.
1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
1944 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
1948 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
1956 - Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel."
1957 - Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires.
1961 - Television: Mr. Ed debuts.
1964 - Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.
1968 - Alexander Dub?ek comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
1970 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres.
1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
1973 - Netherlands recognizes East Germany.
1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru kills six, and damages 100s of houses.
1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea.
1980 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.
1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
1987 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil.
1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
1997 - Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.
2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
2006 - Expected activation of Sober worm
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What is slashdot doing these days? which crackpot feeded that Nazi pointer into this title? Let me put it this way, if i ever see a nazi flag displayed here, slashdot will be going down, without a possible recovery.
The attack date coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party. Or... it could be one day before the Three Kings Day. ?..? ---------- Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!) -- WTF /. ?!?!
WTF dude? This way ANY date can be ANY arbitrary birthday of whatever organization.
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The Nazis?
The Commies
The fascists
The KKK
For about the past month my mail server virus scanner has been getting a large number of hits from Sober, pretty much entirely from Hotmail. It's not an incredibly busy mail server, but the amount of Sober vs other viruses is hard to miss.
Some stats from the past week:
11/28 - 57 hits (2.7% of received emails)
11/29 - 81 hits (3.6%)
11/30 - 64 hits (2.9%)
12/01 - 128 hits (2.2%)
12/02 - 72 hits (3.6%)
It seemed to take a break over Thanksgiving, there were zero hits between 11/23 and 11/28, which is the longest span since I first started seeing a lot of them.
The vast majority of the comments up until now have been pointing out other things that happened on this date. It could be because it's the anniversary of this or that, blah blah blah. I was hoping for a technical discussion of the possible impact of this virus coming to life. Are we looking at another Melissa or ILoveYou scenario or another non-event? Anyone have any insight?
The first thing it does is that it tries to take over a beer hall in Munich.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Not only is it the anniversary of the Nazi party; it's also the date in 1984 that RMS started developing GNU.
Now that's a sobering thought.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
> Jack writes "ITO is reporting that Sober is scheduled to attack on January 2006 - the data coincides with > the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party
... He died of injuries from hitting a tree while skiing at the Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California, at the age of 62. (The accident came just days after Michael Kennedy died in a skiing accident on December 31, 1997, in Colorado.)
5 january Nazi party? hmm. It is much worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (February 16, 1935 - January 5, 1998) was an American record producer, singer, actor and politician whose career spanned over three decades.
"ITL is reporting that Sober is scheduled to attack on January 2006 - the data coincides with the death of Sonny Bono: "The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm. The attack date coincides with the death of Sonny Bono who died of injuries from hitting a tree while skiing at the Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe.""
But is even worse:
Jan 5, 2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
Jan 5, 2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
Jan 5, 1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
Jan 5, 1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
So, "ITNO is reporting that Sober is scheduled to attack on January 2006 - the data coincides with the start of developing GNU and the Dreyfus Affair: "The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm. The attack date coincides with the death of Sonny Bono, the start of Richard Stallman's GNU project, Alfred Dreyfus' imprisonment and the 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit."
Now, in order to understand internet security you need to realize that everything is controlled by the GNU project made up of Free software supporters with help from the nazis. The conspiracy first started during 5th Jan in Devil's Island. They have been responsible for many events throughout history, including the death of Sonny Bono. Today, members of the conspiracy are everywhere. They can be identified by posting articles. They want to imprison Dreyfus and copycat 9/11 using email worm Sober. In order to prepare for this, we all must listen to the hidden news. Since the media is controlled by Richard Stallman we should get our information from slashdot.
Apparently 2006 minus 1918 now equals 87. Thank you for the update, IT Observer.
Next thing we'll be hearing about how this Sober virus Hates Christmas because it says Happy Holidays.
And it hates the soldiers, because it's not properly saying good things about the war in Iraq.
And it was written by sodomites, because it attacks gay computers as well...
Oh whatever. Maybe those conspiracy guys were right and putting flouride in our drinking water is making us stupid.
Quit doing that! It just glorifies the writers of these things. It's pretty cool sounding to be the guy that wrote Doom or Sasser or Sober. But maybe there'd be a small drop in virus writing if we named them things like 2005 Virus #345. You say that's hard to remember and they will all sound the same? That's the damn point. It will take the fame aspect away. The only real reason for naming them is technical, so give them boring technical names that nobody can remember and much of the notoriety from writing a successful virus will vanish.
Who knew the writers of sober were national socialists..
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
It wouldn't be sensational enough otherwise. /OT If you were going for a symbolic "Nazi anniversary" date, wouldn't you want to pick a...er rounder number anyhow? This is about as good as saying "OMGeee... in two months it will be such-and-such anniversary. Symbolic!" What a joke...
one hint: READ the corresponding article (the man of the year one).
Its available online.
Just read it, and see why the GP is a load of crap.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
You receive spam and/or your computer is infected with a virus, and you're supposed to join their cause? This seems inherently counterproductive. Could this virus have been written by an anti-neo-nazi (or neo-anti-nazi)?
If you can read this sig, you're too close.
"The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober...."
This is not an email virus. This is a Microsoft Windows virus. Actually, it's a Microsoft Outlook virus, but nowadays Microsoft ties everything together so tightly that it doesn't matter.
Anyone system not using any Microsoft software, such as systems running Linux and/or *BSD, is completely immune to this (and all the others).
I regularly view all these emails (I use Linux) for no good reason, other than for the fact that I can.
Was it really a coincidence? In any other case I would have cited the old game they teach in Statistics courses about common birthdays among 30 or more people in a room, but wasn't this the worm that sends e-mails to people which contain links to German neo-Nazi websites?
Slashdot requires you to wait longer between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
That's why it's said that January 5th is the 87th aniversary of the NAZIs. This worm already sent out millions of Nazi spam emails so it's probable that the worm doesn't give a fuck about Marlyn Manson's birthday.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
Chile, Cuba, Djibouti, Jordan, Liberia, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, anfd that just considers national flags, not state and regional flags within countries
In a breakthrough, mathematicians prove Van der Leun's corollary.
no one knows if you Yoda are.
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Editors, please add the relevant info. Many of us do not use Windows and end up wasting time checking a virus' background every time a vague alert is posted on Slashdot.
Any virus article that doesn't state which OS or application is acting as host is remiss. Windows != "Computers"
Well, all the people whose mail servers have been getting overwhelmed by Sober hits are already having a bird.
Aw, forget it, I just can't seem to make this pun fly.
Far more interesting to see the other things associated with the date. Wikipedia has a list
Who knows, maybe it is because its the 11th day of Christmas, and the author wants to bring attention to those 11 pipers piping? Or maybe they wanted everyone to harken back to the day in 1961 when the show Mr. Ed began? Isn't this jumping to a conclusion that isn't warranted by the available facts?
Oh wait, this is /., nevermind
Who cares about the Nazi party? It's gonna strike 50 years to the day Elvis released Heartbreak Hotel!
Am I missing something or is this just another case of connecting wildly unrelated dots?
Why not say it's the scheduled to attack on the 91st anniversary of the French blowing up 1/2 a mile of German trenches?
Oh wait, that doesn't generate fear like the original claim...
Seeing as how this story posted up on December 7.
8-7th anniversary, in the 6th year after 2000, on the 5th day after January... in a year with 3 zeros and beginning with 2, in the 1st month... Wait, what happened to 4?
And why for 87?
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Somebody mod the parent as teh FUNNY. Come on people, where is your sense of humor? Redundant?! WTF is wrong with you people...
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lol no this is not a virus.
That's how he gets the title "VeriSign iDefense Security Intelligence Services"
Hacktivism, sounds like something some dumb Americans would do...
Does anyone know wtf their reason is? errr...Don't need a reason for commemorating the Nazi party, I 'spose!
Is that still political? being the Nazis have no political power anymore... OR is THAT what makes it political?
This is why I hate politics, between Y2kHacks and 9/11Anthrax they just want us to be afraid to open our mailboxes!
Why do jews get singled out.
He also equally hated GAYS, GYPSIES, even 1/16th jews and probably russians.
He also printed tonnes and tonnes of currency.......... errr like how the Federal Reserve is today and soon to not report the M3 supply stats.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
Can only speak for myself, of course, but I've used the mod points I've been given today - except for one. I used them on the comments attached to articles I found more interesting than the Sober Worm. In my opinion you need help. If you post AC how can you expect mod-points? If you don't get mod points, how can you surprise us all with your brilliant level of discernment ? You, sir, are certainly not a dumbass, nor yet a clueless moron: those are accusations that you level at us. You, sir, as your post says, are an Anonymous Coward. As such, your vulgarity, as your criticism of our efforts, has all the value of an Elephant Fart in the East Africa. But you do have the right to your opinion - though I can think of no good reason why you should.
How many beans make five, anyhow ?