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| 2005-08-17 | |
| WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A fast-moving computer worm Tuesday attacked computer systems using Microsoft operating systems, shutting down computers in the United States, Germany and Asia. Among those hit were offices on Capitol Hill, Rachel Corrie lives! While the worm affects primarily Windows 2000, it also can affect some early versions of Microsoft XP. Symptoms include the repeated shutdown and rebooting of a computer. Shoot. That happens all the time. Microsoft has a downloadable patch on its security homepage. What was causing the damage was unclear, although experts pointed to a new worm called worm-rbot.cbq. David Perry of Trend Micro, an Internet monitoring firm, said the latest worm may have been derived from the Zotob worm, which was first reported over the weekend. Ullrich, of the Sans Institute, said Zotob "will connect to a control server to ask for instructions. It scans network neighborhoods and tries to infect them, as well." Around 5 p.m. problems began at CNN facilities in New York and Atlanta before being cleared up about 90 minutes later. Since this article is from CNN, I guess they're still up The New York Times also was able to bring its systems back up, and "newspaper production will not be affected," spokeswoman Kathy Park said. Mission not accomplished.
Except an evil laugh from Karl Rove. | |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #3 LOL @ Jackal. Kneel before Zod! Aaron Brown spent almost an hour on this last night. Guess his 'puter was one of those hit at CNN, and he couldn't get his Wonkette fix... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-08-17 11:40 |
| #2 The big Ohio crier is George Voinovich rather than Mike DeWine. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-08-17 09:12 |
| #1 Speaking of worms... check this out: Microsoft beats Apple, files I-Pod patents |
| Posted by: Rafael 2005-08-17 04:48 |