full-disclosure - Re: future happenings..

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From: roelof at sensepost.com (Roelof Temmingh)
Subject: Re: future happenings..

Hi there..

Some time ago we spoke at the FIRST conference in Ottowa, Canada
(www.first.org) about a very destructive worm.

The paper really focusses on a web server based worm, but ideas and
theories behind it can be applied to any type of worm - Blaster included.

The paper can be found at http://www.sensepost.com/misc/FIRST-final.htm.

Flames to /dev/null, comments welcome...

Regards,
Roelof.

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Roelof Temmingh
roelof@...sepost.com
+27 12 667 4737
GMT+2
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Kalleth wrote:

> Just reading through how easily this worm (RPC/DCOM/MSBlast) is spreading,
> and how widespread it is, and the potential number of infected systems - do
> some of you lot think its feasible that sometime in the future someone will
> release a worm that DOES completely wipe the hard disks or do something
> equally nasty to its host AFTER sending itself on to 'x' recipients? a worm
> like that, although i'm hardly qualified to give an opinion, could seriously
> affect a very large quantity of home users - the majority of whom never
> bother updating their OS from the day its installed from the CD.
> Myself, i find a worm that is able to spread this easily as
> rather..disturbing.
> Does anyone else predict (drum roll and overreacting music please..) a
> "doomsday" where nearly every PC running windows (which, lets face it, is
> the predominant OS out there at the moment) thats connected to the internet
> gets taken offline, hard drives wiped? information loss would be terrible ;p
>
> thoughts?
>
> Tom Russell.
>
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