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Story mirrored from ComputerWorld

JUNE 02, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) -

If press coverage is any guide, then the Witty worm wasn't all that successful. Blaster, SQL Slammer, Nimda, even Sasser made bigger headlines. Witty infected only about 12,000 machines, almost none of them home users. It didn't seem like a big deal.

But Witty was a big deal (see story). It represented some scary malware firsts and is likely a harbinger of worms to come. IT professionals need to understand Witty and what it did.

This is one of my favorite quotes and it's commonly attributed to Edmund Burke, a late 17th century politician in England, but is apparently a terrible misquote that has been popularized so much it is part of the body of common knowledge.

Amid widespread critisism and a demand from ICANN, Verisign has retracted the DNS "sitefinder" service that redirected all invalid DNS queries to .com domains to thier own advertising based DNS "helper" service.

In a fairly shocking move, Verisign the key provider of Name lookup for the .com and .net domains has modified their servers to serve up advertising for any mistyped or unassigned domain name.

Act to help convince the US congress that that the DMCA and software patents are not in the public intrest.

Sign a Petition against The DMCA here.

Sign a Petition against Software Patents here.

The Federal Trade Commission has decided that computer security needs a mascot, kind of like Smokey the Bear. So we now have Dewey the Turtle, who's here to promote secure computing for everyone. "When you see the ping of death, duck and cover." - Bruce Schnier - from Cryptogram 8/03
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