The article on HNN appeared last year, round about August...i think. I wrote it. That was a while ago.
The article was nothing *new* - no revolutionary concepts - it was, as the article suggests, a culmination of all the bad things out there, neatly packaged. The article was written before the outbreak of Outlook and MS based viri and as such this avenue was not even fully explored.
The idea was basically just to give the readers an idea of what could be done - how the viri and worms that we were seeing back then were actually quite "harmless" in comparison with how they could have been. I still think that this statement is very relevant today.
I have received many suggestion on how to further enhance the worm/virus, and many suggestions on how "easy" it could be stopped. Like I said in the conclusion - I am not the brighest person on the planet - I am sure that there are many ways to further "enhance" the thing, and just as many ways to try to stop it. The idea was just to see how bad such a thing could be - to toy and share the idea with others in the field.
We would be blind to think that such a monster (or something more dreadfull) cannot and will not be developed in the near future (or maybe even as we speak).
My 2c, Roelof.
PS: I have no idea how it got to/. after all this time... PPS:...and yeah... the "Line" O/S...a case of an over eager spell checker, and some finger trouble:)
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The article on HNN appeared last year, round about August...i think. I wrote it. That was a while ago.
The article was nothing *new* - no revolutionary concepts - it was, as the article suggests, a culmination of all the bad things out there, neatly packaged. The article was written before the outbreak of Outlook and MS based viri and as such this avenue was not even fully explored.
The idea was basically just to give the readers an idea of what could be done - how the viri and worms that we were seeing back then were actually quite "harmless" in comparison with how they could have been. I still think that this statement is very relevant today.
I have received many suggestion on how to further enhance the worm/virus, and many suggestions on how "easy" it could be stopped. Like I said in the conclusion - I am not the brighest person on the planet - I am sure that there are many ways to further "enhance" the thing, and just as many ways to try to stop it. The idea was just to see how bad such a thing could be - to toy and share the idea with others in the field.
We would be blind to think that such a monster (or something more dreadfull) cannot and will not be developed in the near future (or maybe even as we speak).
My 2c,
Roelof.
PS: I have no idea how it got to /. after all this time... ...and yeah... the "Line" O/S...a case of an over eager spell checker, and some finger trouble :)
PPS:
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Roelof W Temmingh
SensePost IT security
roelof@sensepost.com
http://www.sensepost.com
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