Thursday, July 19, 2001

IIS Worm Infects > 100K Servers -- 11:45 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

This CNet article claims that a new worm has infected 12,000 IIS servers (UPDATE! That number has been increased to over 100,000). Apparently Microsoft released a fix for this exploit some time ago, but many sysadmins never bothered to apply it. Ooops. A follow-up article indicates that infected servers was to be used for a massive DDOS attack on whitehouse.gov tonight. Fortunately an error in the worm's code stops it from working. Thanks Slashdot.

This probably explains why my firewall has been hit about 25 times since noon even though I've been doing next to nothing online.

The Master comments: Yup, EZ-Net's IP range falls within the worm's probe range. The Haus has been probed at least 30 times today. I'll be watching to see what happens tomorrow . . .

News for 07/19/2001

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