Week in Review: Worms Exploit Plug and Play Vulnerabilities
Paul F. Roberts has a pretty nice, succint news analysis of the worms/botnet wars/events of last week in eWeek, including a brief timeline of events:
Window of vulnerability
Aug. 9 Microsoft releases patch for vulnerability in Windows Plug and Play service
Aug. 10 Security experts warn of potential for a worm
Aug. 11 Exploit code appears
Aug. 14 Zotob, a worm and backdoor Trojan, appears
Aug. 15 Reports surface of companies and universities hit with the worm; new bots and worms using the Plug and Play hole, such as IRCbot, SDbot and Dogbot
Aug. 16 Reports of widespread disruptions caused by the Plug and Play worms at CNN, ABC, The New York Times, SBC and others.
posted by Fergie @ 8/21/2005 04:34:00 PM
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