Storm Hits Blogger Network

ancientribe writes "Researchers have discovered the Storm Trojan nestled in hundreds of blog sites in Google's Blogger network, according to an article in Dark Reading. And this isn't simple comment spam, but actual blogs that post spam, and now, Storm executable files. A researcher who's been tracking the Storm-infested blog sites says he's working with Google to clean up this latest appearance of Storm."

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Shortcomings of Monoculture

[Victor Tramp]

I'd like to take this moment to revisit the question; why doesn't Microsoft get sued for promoting that everybody use their crappy software that nobody's allowed to peek under the hood at and fix? Now we have a whole internet of these massively compromised machines. Because there's very little variation in their "genetic" makeup, and apparently the "genome" isn't all that robust; they're all susceptible to these horrible, contagious diseases, and it's ALL JUST ONE COMPANY'S FAULT!

I demand to see the rampant Linux viruses now.. This is ridiculous.. The smartest, brightest, hackers in the whole world write an OS from scratch that nobody can claim they solely own, it runs on more machines than there are macintoshes [assuming you also count the macintoshes running linux], been touted as Microsoft's largest competitor, eating up oodles of server marketshare, and nobody's been able to write a decent worm???

puhleez

On the other hand, one company can write one OS, and sell it for top dollar and everybody and their grandmother gets a copy, everybody and their grandkid can write a massively distributable exploit for it, and a WHOLE INDUSTRY of anti-virus software companies spring up (which live comfortably and profitably for decades) to battle the weaknesses in it, a whole industry of botnet admins can wield ridiculous amounts of cycles for whatever purpose they can get paid for....

But still; everybody swears by it, sticks to it, rubs it on their tummies, tosses up all kinds of the heartfelt loyalty to a COMPANY they don't even WORK FOR, a company that doesn't pay them CRAP, and treats their rights like crap????

I do NOT get it.