How damaging are worms? Very, says Sandvine Inc, a Canada based Internet security company. It says that the main damage is on ISPs who lose bandwidth to them, and face daily Denial of Service attacks. “In fact,” Sandvine says in one new report (PDF, registration required), ”Internet worms and the malicious, malformed data traffic they generate … Read more
Worms cause a lot of problems, long after we’ve forgotten about them. Sandvine Incorporated, a network hardware provider, says that worm attacks are hitting internet service provider networks, “degrading the broadband experience for home Internet users and imposing anywhere from thousands to millions (of dollars) in unplanned network and customer support costs directly related to … Read more
There’s talk of several new viruses out there which can do some serious damage. Here are a couple, in brief: MyDoom (sometimes known as Novarg and as a variant of the Mimail virus) has a random subject lines such as “Mail Delivery System,” “Test” or “Mail Transaction Failed” and contains an executable file and a … Read more
One small consolation of worms like Sobig is that you end up having a large number of inadvertent penpals. It’s like a huge chainletter. Sobig ransacks address books and fires off emails to all and sundry, along with the worm (which then does lots of damage, I’m not contesting). While I don’t condone the … Read more
One small consolation of worms like Sobig is that you end up having a large number of inadvertent penpals. It’s like a huge chainletter. Sobig ransacks address books and fires off emails to all and sundry, along with the worm (which then does lots of damage, I’m not contesting). While I don’t condone the … Read more