Schneier on Attack Trends: More Complex Worms

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @12:39AM from the malice-on-the-loose dept.

Gary W. Longsine writes "Bruce Schneier has posted an interesting entry on expected attack trends to his blog. Of particular interest is the increasing sophistication of automated worm-based attacks. He cites the developing W32.spybot.KEG worm -- once inside a network it scans for several vulnerabilities and reports its findings via IRC. Trend Micro also has information on a scanning-capable version of this worm, which they call: WORM_SPYBOT.ID"

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IIS == Thumper (Score:5, Funny)

by hedley ( 8715 ) writes: <hedley@pacbell.net> on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @12:49AM (#12754961) Homepage Journal

Nice to see the industries stock thumper is still #1 for attracting worms and looks to be still #1 in the future. Upon sighting wormsign one only need look closeby for a compromised IIS box.

Hedley

Yet another reason.... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @12:49AM (#12754962)

To upgrade to Lornhorn, so your spyware, viri, and worms are more secure and stable!

Upgrade today... Oh wait.

TFA in a nutshell (Score:2, Funny)

by SleepyHappyDoc ( 813919 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @12:54AM (#12754982)

Uh, things are going to continue the way they have been going, probably.

I found this essay most unimpressive.

Lures and jigs (Score:4, Funny)

by UnAmericanPunk ( 310528 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @12:59AM (#12755004) Homepage

This [homestarrunner.com] is all I could think of when reading this.

"...we've got a KEG... of worms... and phytoplankton"

Re:Modern viruses attack from 2 directions (Score:5, Funny)

by Indy Media Watch ( 823624 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @01:03AM (#12755016) Homepage

The first is stupid users.

Sorry BOFH wannabe, they're not stupid users, they're just users.

If they aren't doing what you would like, you obviously have a training deficiency which might be your fault, not theirs.

How can you possibly secure a network against attacks if your users are constantly undermining your lockdown efforts?

By undermining their efforts. And if they try to undermine your undermining of their undermining, simply undermine their undermining of your undermining of their undermining. It's really quite simple.

Re:work work work... (Score:3, Funny)

by mek2600 ( 677900 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @01:04AM (#12755019) Homepage Journal

What are these people gaining anyway?

Chicks.

Re:work work work... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @01:08AM (#12755032)

Bigger e-penis.

Now if we could only... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @01:12AM (#12755054)

"Bruce Schneier has posted an interesting entry on expected attack trends to his blog."

...develop a worm that attacks trendy blogs.

One day there'll be a worm so complex (Score:5, Funny)

by salparadyse ( 723684 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @01:55AM (#12755233)

... that to all itents and purposes it looks like an Operating System. It will give the use a limited amount of funciontality in order to maintain it's cover. Secretly it will report back to its maker about what you do on your computer and... Oh, wait a minute...

Crime that targets the shady (Score:5, Funny)

by tloh ( 451585 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @02:11AM (#12755300)

from the article:"We have started seeing criminal extortion over the Internet: hackers with networks of hacked machines threatening to launch DoS attacks against companies. Most of these attacks are against fringe industries -- online gambling, online computer gaming, online pornography -- and against offshore networks."

While mainstream web services are cringing in anticipation of becoming targets, it is quit amusing to watch what seems to be one kind of filth devouring another.

Re:Modern viruses attack from 2 directions (Score:5, Funny)

by killjoe ( 766577 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @02:30AM (#12755338)

"By undermining their efforts. And if they try to undermine your undermining of their undermining, simply undermine their undermining of your undermining of their undermining. It's really quite simple."

I don't know where I heard this but...

"You can never make anything idiot proof because idiots are so damned ingenious"

Hmm, Note to self (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @03:40AM (#12755544)

Change password.

Re:Spybot (Score:5, Funny)

by beetlefeet ( 866517 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @04:06AM (#12755627)

Besides they make viruses?
What do they care about infringing on a trademark?!

Z3r0C001: Hey what do you think about the name "I Be Malicious" for the name of our new virus?

|<rash0v3rr|d3: Hmm, the initials of that spell I.B.M., we could be in for a lengthy legal battle.

Z3r0C001: You're right, legalities aside, it would at least be unethical to use a name that shortens to another companies name, especially seeing as both of our products are in the computing realm.

|<rash0v3rr|d3: Indeed, lets forget the virus and forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry icecream.

Z3r0C001: w00t

Re:work work work... (Score:2, Funny)

by Various Assortments ( 781521 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @07:22AM (#12756128)

You're so silly. What are you gonna do when your mom lets you leave the house?

Re:work work work... (Score:4, Funny)

by binner1 ( 516856 ) writes: <bdwalton&gmail,com> on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @07:59AM (#12756231) Homepage

The fact that you were able to install a personal firewall on your machine indicates to me that it may be quite a while before your admins figure out what nailed them...

-Ben

Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @08:55AM (#12756462)

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Re:work work work... (Score:3, Funny)

by glwtta ( 532858 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @11:25AM (#12758076) Homepage

What are these people gaining anyway?
About 9 pounds a week, on their staple diet of cheetos and Moutain Dew?

Re:NOT an argument for platform diversity - My 2c (Score:3, Funny)

by pyrrhonist ( 701154 ) writes: on Wednesday June 08, 2005 @01:24PM (#12759543)

Failure is *not* an option!
The failure option will be available in the next release as a standard feature.

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IIS == Thumper (Score:5, Funny)

Yet another reason.... (Score:1, Funny)

TFA in a nutshell (Score:2, Funny)

Lures and jigs (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Modern viruses attack from 2 directions (Score:5, Funny)

Re:work work work... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:work work work... (Score:2, Funny)

Now if we could only... (Score:5, Funny)

One day there'll be a worm so complex (Score:5, Funny)

Crime that targets the shady (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Modern viruses attack from 2 directions (Score:5, Funny)

Hmm, Note to self (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Spybot (Score:5, Funny)

Re:work work work... (Score:2, Funny)

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