Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct 501
tsu doh nimh writes "Several news sources are reporting that the tens of thousands of Microsoft Windows systems infected with the Mydoom worm and being used in an ongoing denial of service attack against US and S. Korean government Web sites will likely have their hard drives wiped of data come Friday. From The Washington Post's Security Fix blog, the malware is 'designed to download a payload from a set of Web servers. Included in that payload is a Trojan horse program that overwrites the data on the hard drive with a message that reads "memory of the independence day," followed by as many "u" characters as it takes to write over every sector of every physical drive attached to the compromised system.' ChannelNews Asia
carries similar information."
Re:U ? (Score:5, Informative)
I wouldn't expect either of the linked articles to know binary. It probably is "U", meaning just a repeating 010101010101010101........ Makes the most sense given the structure of hard drives and the fact that a repeated sequence of "u" after "memory of the independence day" (assuming that comma is also not part of it) makes no sense from any point of view.
Re:Independence Day (Score:5, Informative)
Re:U ? (Score:5, Informative)
.... "u" in ASCII, represented in binary is 0111 0101, not 1010 0101. "U" is 0101 0101, as you said though.
Re:Independence Day (Score:2, Informative)
Re:What is the source? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Brainwashing is in the eye of the beholder (Score:3, Informative)
Or maybe Clinton just decided that chasing skirts was a better idea than getting his brains blown out.
Clinton got something else blown out instead.
DVD players and game consoles (Score:4, Informative)
Movie-playing appliance
That's called a DVD player. There are also game-playing appliances, but these are typically locked down so tight that works developed by students, hobbyists, and small businesses can't get in through the normal channels.
Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:5, Informative)
Escaping North Korea: Secrets of the World's Most Isolated Country by Mike Kim
I have no idea if you would consider this trustworthy or not, but it comes from that book. The author was on the ground and personally helped North Korean citizens through the underground railroad and interviewed quite a few of them.
# Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
# Pub. Date: September 2008
# ISBN-13: 9780742556201
Re:first post.. (Score:5, Informative)
You are wrong. The GGP (my GGGP) is talking about the ActiveX widget that banks use for encryption in South Korea:
http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/02/27/the-cost-of-monoculture/ [mozilla.com]
Re:Final code (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, they deciphered exactly when and how it will strike, but can't figure out how to remove it?
They have already figured out how to remove it [symantec.com].
Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:5, Informative)
As someone who believe this, please don't confuse Catholics and Protestants. Catholics (a large percentage, but far from all of Christianity) believe in Transubstatiation (The bread and wine become the body of Christ). However, the majority of protestant traditions teach that communion is strictly symbolic. And it's not "Hey, be a cannibal so I can save you!" It's a backreference to (among other things) the first passover meal, in which a lamb was slaughtered and it's blood put on the doorposts of the house to save it's occupants from the angel of death in Egypt. It symbolises that just as the lamb had to die (and be eaten) to save those in the house in Egypt, so Christ had to give his body to save those who would believe in him; and just as the blood of the lamb protected everyone who took refuge in that house in Egypt, so the blood of Christ protects all who take refuge in his sacrifice.
Sorry to cloud the issue with pertinent facts though, carry on.