Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party 302
Jack writes "ITO is reporting that Sober is scheduled to attack on January 2006 - the data coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party: "The next planned widespread of 2005's most prolific e-mail worm, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm. The attack date coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party.""
Randomness (Score:1, Interesting)
Great... (Score:5, Interesting)
This story is null and void. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:No mention of the Operating System??? (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm not joking.
First, there is one virus announcement for Linux that I recall this past year.
Second, Microsoft should never escape having their product explicitly associated with the malware it hosts.
Third, the rest of the IT industry does not deserve the wide-ranging implication that this is a "computer virus". This is a Windows virus.
because people are lazy (Score:4, Interesting)
1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
1477 - Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy becomes part of France.
1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
1527 - Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist.
1554 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1675 - Battle of Colmar, French army beats Brandenburg.
1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides.
1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead.
1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
1912 - Prague Party Conference
1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
1918 - Free Committee for a German Workers' Peace founded, which would become the Nazi party.
1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
1944 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
1948 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
1956 - Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel."
1957 - Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires.
1961 - Television: Mr. Ed debuts.
1964 - Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.
1968 - Alexander Dub?ek comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
1970 - Soap opera: All My Children premieres.
1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
1973 - Netherlands recognizes East Germany.
1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru kills six, and damages 100s of houses.
1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea.
1980 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.
1984 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
1987 - President of the United States Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil.
1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
1997 - Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.
2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
2006 - Expected activation of Sober worm
Sober making the rounds here for a while (Score:3, Interesting)
Some stats from the past week:
11/28 - 57 hits (2.7% of received emails)
11/29 - 81 hits (3.6%)
11/30 - 64 hits (2.9%)
12/01 - 128 hits (2.2%)
12/02 - 72 hits (3.6%)
It seemed to take a break over Thanksgiving, there were zero hits between 11/23 and 11/28, which is the longest span since I first started seeing a lot of them.
Re:I concur (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis? (Score:3, Interesting)
Only because prior to 1938 he did not have the means. Maybe you didn't mean to infer otherwise, but the guy was a bad apple well before then.
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Re:Great... (Score:3, Interesting)
Your post rang bells in a dark recess of my mind labelled 'Elder Virus Lore', and I had to check with Google.
January 5th is Joshi's birthday [symantec.com].
Never mind the Nazi stuff, I think the Sober guys are just paying tribute to a viral classic :)
Re:I concur (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Why are these people so attracted to the Nazis? (Score:3, Interesting)
That was normal then. Here in the US we had the Jim Crow laws that were revoked in 1964. In South Africa, there was apartheid that lasted until very recently. Also, the US government experimented on syphilis on black people [infoplease.com] for 40 years. If you know anything about syphilis, you can appreciate the injustice here.
The Germans and the US were in a bad depression and would do anything to get out of it. The Germans took it out on non-Germans and started remaking the map of Europe. Its common for a group of people that are stressed to get tight and nationalistic and take out scapegoats. Look at the US during WWI, WWII, and after the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. Flags a waving, and a desire to go and kill the bad guy. The people in the US used conquering Japan and Germany to get out of their depression, just like Germans followed Hitler to get out of theirs. The US has never, and apparently will never have an "enemy". Look at pro "wrestling", they were first Nazi's, then Russians and Iranians, I guess now they are terrorists (don't watch it).
He wasn't some fairytale poster boy who just randomly went bad; though I've never read it, I understand that the size of his ambition is evident in Mein Kampf, written long before 1938.
I'll be sure to never mention his name again. Its just a bad thing. Mein Kamph was written during his 8 month jail sentence for the '23 attempt to take over Germany.
No, he is no more of a fairytale poster boy than anybody. He was basically given permission to do what he wanted by millions of people.
Humans by definition are created by other humans. All of them. The good and the bad. If any human is not in contact with others they don't walk upright, they do not and cannot learn to speak, they surely will not ever rule a country. Hitler is a black eye on almost everybody's face.