Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Worm Bites Other News Orgs Other Than CNN
Source: Associated Press Infected firms include CNN, the New York Times and Caterpillar. Computers running on Windows 2000 were targeted.
Trend Micro security analyst David Perry said the worms are known as: Rbot.cbq, SDBot.bzh and Zotob.d.
They spread across the Internet Tuesday.
I also have read that ABC News was affected right along with the Associated Press and MSNBC.
MORE from Netcraft:
A computer worm disrupted the networks of U.S media organizations today, but has had no visible impact upon major web sites. The worm, which uses a vulnerability in Windows PnP to target Windows 2000 machines, knocked computers offline at CNN, ABC News and the New York Times. The damage appears to be limited to internal corporate networks, as the web sites of the U.S. Fortune 100 show no unusual outages, including the 18 companies in the index hosted on Windows 2000. Likewise, Britain's FTSE 100, which has 36 sites running on Win2K, shows no suspicious performance problems either.
Trend Micro security analyst David Perry said the worms are known as: Rbot.cbq, SDBot.bzh and Zotob.d.
They spread across the Internet Tuesday.
I also have read that ABC News was affected right along with the Associated Press and MSNBC.
MORE from Netcraft:
A computer worm disrupted the networks of U.S media organizations today, but has had no visible impact upon major web sites. The worm, which uses a vulnerability in Windows PnP to target Windows 2000 machines, knocked computers offline at CNN, ABC News and the New York Times. The damage appears to be limited to internal corporate networks, as the web sites of the U.S. Fortune 100 show no unusual outages, including the 18 companies in the index hosted on Windows 2000. Likewise, Britain's FTSE 100, which has 36 sites running on Win2K, shows no suspicious performance problems either.
# posted by ATN @ 9:42 PM 
