Congratulations, you complete bastard...
I guess we have to give a perverted hats off to the writer of the Sobig virus. He (she? it?) has effectively killed a big portion of the Internet, in my market at least. The last time I couldn’t get to USAToday.com was on September 11, 2001.
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Microsoft Taken to Court Over Flaws
Lawsuit Takes on Microsoft Security Flaws: This kind of snuck in under the radar. There have been rumors for years about Microsoft being held accountable for the havoc its systems wreak when they get hit with another virus. "The company today confirmed that it had received a proposed class-action lawsuit…
Sobig 2?
There's a new worm that's ramping up quick. It's an email that appears to be from Microsoft with a subject line something like "newest net critical pack" or "Network Patch" or another one of about six variants. It has an executable attached. I'm getting about one of these every…
China Hacks Taiwan
Cabinet says computers under attack: Is this the new frontier of international conflict? Don't bother invading physically, just bring down their IT infrastructure. "China has launched a systematic information warfare campaign against Taiwan, spreading Trojan-horse programs into private companies' computers as a means to break into government databases, the Cabinet…
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No kidding. I left work to go home and work there so that I could actually get something done. The amazing thing is that in the office where I work, most all of the computers besides a select few are not behind any sort of firewall at all, so you can imagine how every internet plague effective destroys it every time.
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