Tag: Blaster worm
Tech Time Warp: Welchia—when the remedy was as bad as the malady
Tech Time Warp: Welchia—when the remedy was as bad as the malady
August 2003 was already challenging for network administrators. They were busy fending off the Blaster worm, whose payload caused computers to reboot every 60 seconds, so initially they may have reacted positively to news of the Welkin worm. Welkin was...
Tech Time Warp: A Blaster from the past
Tech Time Warp: A Blaster from the past
Although early conclusions suggest a cyber attack was not the cause of the historic April 28 power outages in Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, only time and the inevitable investigations will tell. The blackout does bring to mind another...
