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 t33kid, aka Jeffrey Parson, is the Minnesota teenager arrested by the FBI as the author of one variant of the Blaster worm. Jeffery is reported to be "physically imposing" at 6' 4" and 320 lbs. Blaster.b, with which Mr. Parson is charged, infected 7000 computers according to the FBI, a tiny portion of the damage. Gotta wonder if the guy wanted to be caught... he seems to have been well versed in hacker ways, but left some very obvious pointers to himself... like posting worm code to a domain registered to himself at his home address...Comments 9:12:30 PM 
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Where's OsOpinion gone? Home pages says site is temporarily closed... Comments 3:42:43 PM
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Netgear shipped 700,000 routers that ping the University of Wisconsin's time servers once a second - something like a 150 Mbit/second flood. I've had reasonably good luck with Netgear's stuff in the past, so the last home network upgrade involved putting in a Mr814 802.11 hub, an RP614 Firewall/DSL router and a Fs608 8-port switch. When I was troubleshooting a network problem (that turned out to be a Slapper worm lodged in an unpatched Red Hat Linux server) I notice a remarkable amount of outbound requests to the University of Wisconisn's NTP servers while running a sniffer on the local network. An email to Netgear support was answered that it was a bug, and would be fixed in the future. I thought that might mean trouble for the U of W - and sure enough, they are getting hosed.
I had no idea the Netgear products had been sold in such volumes. Netgear has a patch for my MR814 and RP614, available here, btw. I can't imagine U of W can be too happy about this... what was Netgear thinking? |
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T33kid, aka Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hopkins, Minnesota has been arrested, and his 7 computers siezed, according to an AP report. Parson is suspected of authoring the worm variant variously know as 'Hi Mom' or 'Blaster.B'. t33kid.com, Jeffrey's Web site is still in Google's cache, complete with worm code samples. Wonder if it was like a scene from 'Hackers'? Guess somebody is going to be grounded for a very long time... Comments 12:18:01 PM
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SCO's Darl McBride: "The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster." From Connect Utah. Question: will any company ever again run their business on SCO? Comments 9:18:32 AM
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Blaster worm author is a teenager according to reports circulating yesterday and this morning. There's a 1:30 PM PDT press conference scheduled in Seattle, during which the suspect may be named. On the trail of the worm... kid is said to be the author of a variant... Comments 8:48:24 AM
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London power outage only lasted 34 minutes, according to The Indy, but the timing - during rush hour - and the heavy reliance by Brittish public transport on electricity caused chaos. Another indication of how fragile our world is... distributed power generation like microturbines and solar panels is probably a good idea... Comments 8:43:39 AM
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Updated 4/16/04; 12:55:58 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:55:58 PM
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