New advisories at TechNet: SoBig, Welchia
The official advisories for SoBig and Welchia/Nachi have been posted on TechNet.
Missed the meetup
Jake has another good writeup for this month’s Seattle Blog Meetup. I had hoped to go, but other events (surprisingly, not work—yesterday was the last day of my in-laws’ visit with us) precluded my attendance.
More SoBig fallout: blacklists
In my mail this morning, along with the few SoBig messages that made it past my ISP’s mail virus filter and my junk mail filters (see this entry at MacOSXHints for a rule to filter the rest as junk manually), was a notice from Yahoo! Groups that my account had been paused because I had [...]
On finishing Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren has been my “current reading” since the beginning of the summer; I was beginning to think it had taken up permanent residence in the lower left corner of my blog. I finally finished it in the airplane on the way to Pennsylvania last weekend. The book is, as Jonathan Lethem writes [...]
SoBiggest
Lawrence points to a News.com story that sez Sobig is aptly named: the fastest spreading virus ever. Guesses as to what made it spread so quickly: a combination of good social engineering (randomly selected forged return addresses) and good spam-filter-busting capabilities (the rotating subject lines, the changing return addresses, the changing attachment name). No surprise: [...]
