Storm Worm Now 'Just a Squall'
Robert McMillan writes on InfoWorld:
The Storm Worm's days may be numbered, according to a University of California researcher.More here.
Brandon Enright, a network security analyst at UC San Diego, has been tracking Storm since July and said that, despite the intense publicity that the network of infected computers has received, it's actually been shrinking steadily and is presently a shadow of its former self. On Saturday, he presented his findings at the Toorcon hacker conference in San Diego.
Storm is not really a computer worm. It's a network of computers that have been infected via malicious e-mail messages, and are centrally controlled via the Overnet P-to-P protocol. Enright said he has developed software that crawls through the Storm network and he thinks that he has a pretty accurate estimate of how big Storm really is.
posted by Fergie @ 10/22/2007 11:53:00 AM
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