[expert] Slapper Worm & New Variants

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Title: Linux Today - Vnunet: Two on New Slapper Worm Developments

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	Vnunet: Two on New Slapper Worm DevelopmentsSep 24, 2002, 15 :47 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (326 reads)(Other stories by James Middleton and Iain Thomson)
	Vnunet: Arrest for Slapper Author


"A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of authoring the Slapper worm.

"But although the threat of the worm seems to have been shortlived, a new variant is already set to take up where its predecessor left off.

"'Slapper mailed the addresses of infected machines back to an email address in the Ukraine,' [ISS senior consultant David Morgan] said. 'This email was checked from a traceable location and, as a result, a 21-year-old male has been arrested by the authorities...'




Complete Story

Third Slapper Worm Hits the Street

"Barely 24 hours after the Slapper B worm started to show up on antivirus monitoring stations, a new variant has cropped up.

"According to security specialist ISS, Slapper C has infected 1,500 servers already and is spreading, although a source point has not been identified at this time..."



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[expert] Slapper Worm & New Variants

2002-09-24 Thread Sevatio 




Title: Linux Today - Vnunet: Two on New Slapper Worm Developments




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	Vnunet: Two on New Slapper Worm DevelopmentsSep 24, 2002, 15 :47 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (320 reads)(Other stories by James Middleton and Iain Thomson)
	Vnunet: Arrest for Slapper Author


"A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of authoring the Slapper worm.

"But although the threat of the worm seems to have been shortlived, a new variant is already set to take up where its predecessor left off.

"'Slapper mailed the addresses of infected machines back to an email address in the Ukraine,' [ISS senior consultant David Morgan] said. 'This email was checked from a traceable location and, as a result, a 21-year-old male has been arrested by the authorities...'




Complete Story

Third Slapper Worm Hits the Street

"Barely 24 hours after the Slapper B worm started to show up on antivirus monitoring stations, a new variant has cropped up.

"According to security specialist ISS, Slapper C has infected 1,500 servers already and is spreading, although a source point has not been identified at this time..."



Complete Story



Related Stories:

Common Criteria: Slapper Worm Stops Slapping(Sep 23, 2002)

Symantec/LinuxSecurity.com: Apache Advisory: OpenSSL(Sep 14, 2002)

Mail this storyPrint this story







BRU for BSD Personal Edition 17.0





BRU Personal Edition 17.0 Backup & Restore Utility is a functionally-rich backup solution designed for single or networked systems used in the home. BRU's proven data verification and error recovery  ...


Get it from Linux Central The /root. for Linux Resources







		   
		
	
		Current Newswire:


ZDNet:  Ballmer: We'll Outsmart Open Source



SECURITY: Vnunet: Two on New Slapper Worm Developments



Mozilla.org: New Mozilla-Based Phoenix Browser Released



Linux Journal: Software Freedom for Macedonia?



ExtremeTech: Red Hat's Heresy



GrepLaw.org: Don Marti on Free Software, Patents and the Internet



Kernel Traffic #185 By Zack Brown



Kernel Cousin Wine #136 By Brian Vincent



AbiWord Weekly News #110 by Eric A. Zen



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