A daily survey of the latest cybercrime news from around the world.
The Register: Solaris/IIS Worm Hits 9000 Boxes in 48 Hours 11-May-01 07:29:49 ET
Story Highlights:“The quite reliable hacker tracker attrition.org is reporting that nearly nine thousand machines had been auto-defaced by the sadmind/IIS worm as of Tuesday, making it one of the most effective little scripts ever loosed on the Net…”
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“Attrition has posted the IPs of all the boxes known to have been hit, and mirrored the default defacement to boot…”
ZDNET: Homepage Worm Hits 14,000 Worldwide 11-May-01 08:42:58 ET
Story Highlights:“The fast spreading Homepage worm has hit around 14,000 computers on its round the world trip…”
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“Antivirus experts warn that although the pornography virus has been contained, there is still the danger of re-infection…”
Newsbytes: Experts Say New Worm Behind Jump In NT Web-Server Hacks 10-May-01 16:55:46 ET
Story Highlights:“A newly discovered weakness in some Web hosts running software from Microsoft and a new Internet worm that is automatically defacing Web pages have helped hackers compromise thousands of servers over the last few days…”
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“The CERT Coordination Center, a clearing house for Internet security issues based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., reported today that Web pages on ‘several thousand’ servers had been defaced…”
Ananova: E-mail Virus Derails Missing Girl Search 11-May-01 04:08:10 ET
Story Highlights:“An e-mail virus is derailing an internet campaign aimed at finding a missing five-year-old girl in Canada…”
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“The e-mail virus apparently contains information about Jessica and an attachment claiming to hold more information on the case…”
The Register: Sophos Rebuffs Virus-Spreading Charge 11-May-01 07:14:21 ET
Story Highlights:“Antivirus vendor Sophos has been forced to deny spreading viruses itself after the virus scanner of rival McAfee flagged up an alert as a copy of the Homepage virus…”
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“Sophos said that some versions of McAfee’s VirusScan issued the false alarm because its write up of the Homepage virus used…”
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