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- Microsoft shrugs off MyDoom attack
- Microsoft shrugs off MyDoom attackRepost: What a sad state of affairs.Once upon a time there was a band of brave men and women that had a dream of people in all walks of life, from every corner of the world being able to communicate, exchange information, and share the...
- Tags: SECURITY, Viruses and worms, MyDoom attack, scum, Microsoft Corp., MyDoom virus, humanity, attack
- Discussion threads 2004-02-03
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- Botnet awakes in further South Korean attack
- South Korea is increasingly looking like a nationwide botnet, as MyDoom malware implanted on thousands of PCs woke up, initiating a third wave of DOS cyberattacks on the country's government, business and media servers, The Washington Post reports. Ahnlabs, the country's largest security company, predicted the explosion...
- Tags: Operating System, North Korea, South Korea, Attack, South, Government, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- US, S. Korean websites under attack; N. Korea blamed
- US, S. Korean websites under attack; N. Korea blamedattacks from Windows machinesThese are infected Windows operating system computers that are attacking the government sites. Will we ever learn?RE: US, S. Korean websites under attack; N. Korea blamedIs this story real? It seems like this would be a little more...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, SECURITY, Cyberwarfare, Korean website, attack, Web site
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- Snitch on the Conficker worm author, collect $250,000
- Happen to know who put together the Conficker worm that's making the rounds and is estimated to have infected millions of Windows-based PCs? If you do Microsoft is offering a cool $250,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those behind the worm. Today, Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Worm, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- New MyDoom draws on IE flaw to spread
- New MyDoom draws on IE flaw to spreadThis is my brother, Stupid and my other brother, StupidI guess this particular infection is only a problem if you are:Stupid enough to open an email like that and then stupid enough to click on the link-and-Stupid enough to be using Internet ExplorerHow...
- Tags: Firewalls, Federal government, e-mail, firewall, Linux, Windows Machine, FBI, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2004-11-08
- Ask Tom Ridge or bust
- Ask Tom Ridge or bustEye-glazing techSo, nobody cares about cybersecurity because there's no political advantage to it. Not false, just incomplete.Tech issues are boringly technical. And when people hear about it, they flash to all the stuff they've avoided doing on their home pc, and het away from...
- Tags: Needed, Tech Issues, security, cybersecurity, Tom Ridge
- Discussion threads 2004-10-08
- Zombie armies behind cyberscrime sprees
- Zombie armies behind cyberscrime spreesit is time to make users accountableif i place my gun out on the couch, and leave it there, and my 4 year old picks it up and shoots someone, guess who's going to jail?that's right, me.therefore, i keep the gun safely and securely locked away.it's...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, zombie army, computer, virus
- Discussion threads 2004-10-01
- New MyDoom offers 'how to' details
- New MyDoom offers 'how to' detailsWe need INTERNATIONAL Law...Only then will these people be locked up as they should be.There should be an automatic 5 YEAR sentence for releasing a Virus, trojan or for installing SPYWARE on someone's computer.It is heart warmingthat the virus writers have now become more polite...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, UNIX, SECURITY, Operating systems, MyDoom virus, virus, Linux, New MyDoom, Unlike Linsux, BSD
- Discussion threads 2004-09-16
- MyDoom opens door for attack on Microsoft
- MyDoom opens door for attack on MicrosoftHere's an option"It's a matter of how do we reach the people who own those PCs and let them know what's going on?" Weafer added. "It's not just MyDoom--they're wide open to anything attackers want to throw at them."How bout we take their PC's...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, MyDoom virus, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-07-27
- MyDoom variant slams mailboxes
- A pesky new variant of the MyDoom worm--dubbed MyDoom.m or MyDoom.o--was clogging e-mail accounts and crippling major Internet search engines Monday with messages posing as either a returned mail notice or an alert from an IT administrator. By Tuesday, the worm attack was starting to fade. MyDoom.m mainly arrives as...
- Tags: MyDoom virus
- Blog posts 2004-07-26
- Visitors can't reach Google search
- Visitors can't reach Google searchMicrosoft sucks!Oh. Wait. Nevermind.Google sucks!Sporadic?Well. It happens everytime I try to do a search. The last I looked the word for that behavior was consistent. Not sporadic.GoogleI wonder if this sporadic error will cause any trouble with Googles initial IPO. I'm from Minnesota. I...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, Manufacturing, SECURITY, Network technology, outage, Google Inc., MyDoom virus, Microsoft Corp., Google Search
- Discussion threads 2004-07-26
- Bagle keeps on toasting PCs
- Bagle keeps on toasting PCsAnd toasting Microsofts reputation. 50 billion can't stop the problems.It will be a long road to Longhorn what Microsoft hopes will be safer lock-in technologies. In the mean time, not sure how much more bad news that they can take. Also, it must not be much...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Linux, Viruses and worms, virus, Microsoft Corp., security, Microsoft Windows, Bagle virus, PC
- Discussion threads 2004-07-19
- Witty worm crawls through ISS firewalls
- Witty worm crawls through ISS firewallsThis is a Microsoft specific ActiveX exploitThis is another Microsoft Windows specific exploit. How cleverly this was not even hinted at, much less mentioned in this article. ActiveX is another way in which Windows funnels hostile functionality straight into the heart of the computer you...
- Tags: Firewalls, Cyberthreats, Network security, SECURITY, firewall, virus, Microsoft Windows, software, Witty Worm, ActiveX
- Discussion threads 2004-03-22
- MySQL addresses open-source license problem
- MySQL addresses open-source license problemStill not main stream?"...growing pains in the open-source software movement as it becomes a mainstream part of the computing industry."ZDNet doesn't believe something is mainstream unless somebody is making a ton of money off it.I can't wait for the day that air becomes a mainstream product,...
- Tags: Databases, MySQL, open source
- Discussion threads 2004-03-12
- SCO recovers from MyDoom
- SCO recovers from MyDoomCowardly acts of open source DOS attacksIt is ashame that this community trys to put on a good image. When they are behind this chicanery.Wrong targetThe target of MyDoom isn't SCO, it's *you* (generic, not zdnet).There's a good chance that a chunk of the spam you got...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc., MyDoom virus
- Discussion threads 2004-03-08
- Latest MyDoom picking up pace
- Latest MyDoom picking up paceAnother day, another virusMS: What do you want to patch today?Have to get a crew together for the Monty Python PC Show. Patch, patch, spam and patches. Patches and spam. Spam, patches and patches...Wow....A denial of service attack on the RIAA???Geez... I'm tempted to...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Patches, virus, distributed denial of service, security, patch management, MyDoom virus, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2004-02-25
- Study: Linux attacks outpace Windows
- Study: Linux attacks outpace WindowsTHE PAIN IN THE OSS COMMUNITY MUST BE UNBEARABLEAll this negative news and only positive news for Microsoft must be killing them! Linux is doomed. All the security vulnerabilities and spaghetti like code will be banished forever. We should sue anyone associated with...
- Tags: SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, confidential data, attack, Linux, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-02-20
- SCO waits for MyDoom attacks to end
- SCO waits for MyDoom attacks to endMyDoom dirtyI want the person s who did the MyDoom dirty-deed to be found. I have spent 12 days in computer-hell. Even tho over 7 doom virus scanners found NO infection on my computer, it continued to short-circut applications and Internet use.Also,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, MyDoom virus, computer, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-02-12
- MyDoom author may be covering tracks
- MyDoom author may be covering tracksUnfortunateIt's too bad that it takes hatred for Microsoft and/or SCO to bring out such imagination. Just think how much good such a person could do if those talents were put to beneficial use.Carl RapsonGender specific male pronoun okay?It seems that using gender-specific male pronouns...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Leadership, motivation, gender, virus, women, MyDoom author, MyDoom virus
- Discussion threads 2004-02-10
- New viruses feed on MyDoom infections
- New viruses feed on MyDoom infections50,000 or 75,000 machines?"There are only about 50,000 or 75,000 machines left that are infected".Where do these numbers come from? A quick tcpdump on my class C shows 10 different source IPs doing sequential scans for port 3127 in the past 5 minutes. ie 10...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Call centers, Cyberthreats, MyDoom virus, distributed denial of service, infection, computer
- Discussion threads 2004-02-09
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