Aw man, now I went and spit Coke all over my keyboard!
Hey wait...
Gibson makes guitars.
Guitars are played by musicians.
Musicians with contracts work for a record company.
Record companies are in league with the RIAA!
The RIAA is doing this to keep me from my mp3s!!
If you follow the link to google you'll see the infamous words "Code Red" ranked third. Perhaps just another coincidence... Or is it?? (/me looks provacatively into the camera)
Almost certainly the People's Liberation Army's Cyberwarfare division running a test by using an old exploit.
South Korea was also hit.
The PLA is probably just waiting for the US to be fully committed in Iraq before they let North Korea attack South Korea, Japan, the Phillipines and Alaska with missiles as a diversion so that they can enslave Free China.
--I thought this too, but I mean semi seriously. I stayed up real late watching it to make sure it wasn't a 'war' prelude. All the second world potential badguys have a cyber attack part of their assymetrical warfare plans, that's just freely available data you can read about.
My "oh crap,no internet" communications plans are a heap-o shortwaves and scanners. Better than nuthin. I know all the commercial am and fm and tv stations will all get taken over by the fema boxes, and start spewing dotgov propaganda (moreso than normal), so I'd be more monitoring some more "unregulated" sources.
My dumbass is actually running SQL Server 2000...my switch was lit up completely. I've never seen the traffic light glow more solid than the connection light.
Well if you took the time and installed the patches (which have been out for some time, also included in SP3, BTW), you wouldn't have been a part of the problem, you would have been a part of the solution.
C'mon mods! It was neither troll nor interesting, it was a joke. I took the comment of the parent and twisted it. After all, it seems to me that MS has harmed network security more than Saddam Hussein has. Sheesh...
You should be using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
[microsoft.com] to ensure that ALL the machines on your network are properly patched and locked down. It's so easy to run there should be no excuse for attacks like this.
My only question is that if this is so important, why do they banish it to parts unknown (pardon, the depths of their Technet site) rather than placing it in everybody's Start menu? Cheers to their security consciousness, jeers to their halfassed methods of information deployment.
My only question is that if this is so important, why do they banish it to parts unknown (pardon, the depths of their Technet site) rather than placing it in everybody's Start menu?
Actually, we already did this bit on Slashdot. It was back when MS released SP3 for Win2k which basically did just that (installed an automated patch collection/installation system, placed it in the start menu and system tray). And, IIRC, back then the consensus was that it's A Bad Thing(tm).:-)
Anyways, it's there if you want it. Ignorance is no excuse.
Please forward this Information to FSIC. Ford System Intergration Center. They feel you only need to start up a couple computers for it to work and the ones that are not therefore they should not be a problem.
Kevin Mitnick is allowed back on the net and the net goes fubar
Why is this moderated as funny? He has a valid point. Kevin Mitnick gets on the Internet and a few days later we're infected with a huge DDOS'ing worm? I doubt it's a coincidence. Somebody go arrest him immediately and hold him until we figure this out.;-)
Who did this I wonder????? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:5, Funny)
I investigated into this matter, and came up with the following theory.
Port 1434 = 1+4+3+4 = 12
12 is the number of the month when Steve Gibson got hired as a consultant [grc.com]. Coincidence? I think not!
SQL (alphabet numbered) = S(19) + Q(17) + L(12) = 48
48 is the number of states which are connected together on US map. That means that attack came either from Hawaii or Alaska.
Using the search on a popular site called Google, I was able to track down [google.com] the perpetrator.
So at the end we are left with one answer: Steve Gibson is just hax0ring back, in an elaborate revenge plan to outlaw port 1434 and raw sockets.
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:2)
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:1, Interesting)
personally i think it was george w. bush, in a maniacal attempt to force feed us with laws to protect the internet from terrorists!
I called him ... (Score:1)
Dan
Re:I called him ... (Score:1)
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:1, Offtopic)
btw, feel free to "offtopic" me and waste my karma, I give my karma to that!
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:3, Funny)
I know..
HACK THE GIBSON
erm..
nevermind..
S
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:1)
So... (Score:1)
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:2)
Note the code red (Score:1)
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:1, Funny)
The last "funny" non-troll comment which was actually funny was made around 3 years ago I believe.
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:1)
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:1, Interesting)
South Korea was also hit.
The PLA is probably just waiting for the US to be fully committed in Iraq before they let North Korea attack South Korea, Japan, the Phillipines and Alaska with missiles as a diversion so that they can enslave Free China.
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:5, Insightful)
My "oh crap,no internet" communications plans are a heap-o shortwaves and scanners. Better than nuthin. I know all the commercial am and fm and tv stations will all get taken over by the fema boxes, and start spewing dotgov propaganda (moreso than normal), so I'd be more monitoring some more "unregulated" sources.
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:2)
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:2, Insightful)
Well if you took the time and installed the patches (which have been out for some time, also included in SP3, BTW), you wouldn't have been a part of the problem, you would have been a part of the solution.
Leave it to Mircosoft to crash the internet.
Leave it to the lazy and incompetent, I say...
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:1)
The White House commented on this today (Score:2, Funny)
"That's why Saddam Hussein is a menace that must be stopped with all due force."
Re:The White House commented on this today (Score:2, Troll)
Re:The White House commented on this today (Score:2)
Re:The White House commented on this today (Score:2)
Oh, well, I'm an old-timer now.
!!!ATTENTION MS ADMINS!!! (Score:3, Informative)
You should be using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer [microsoft.com] to ensure that ALL the machines on your network are properly patched and locked down. It's so easy to run there should be no excuse for attacks like this.
!!!ATTENTION MS ADMINS!!!
Re:!!!ATTENTION MS ADMINS!!! (Score:3, Interesting)
My only question is that if this is so important, why do they banish it to parts unknown (pardon, the depths of their Technet site) rather than placing it in everybody's Start menu? Cheers to their security consciousness, jeers to their halfassed methods of information deployment.
Re:!!!ATTENTION MS ADMINS!!! (Score:2, Insightful)
Actually, we already did this bit on Slashdot. It was back when MS released SP3 for Win2k which basically did just that (installed an automated patch collection/installation system, placed it in the start menu and system tray). And, IIRC, back then the consensus was that it's A Bad Thing(tm).
Anyways, it's there if you want it. Ignorance is no excuse.
Re:!!!ATTENTION MS ADMINS!!! (Score:2)
Re:!!!ATTENTION MS ADMINS!!! (Score:1)
Hrmmm MySql wasnt affected on my Linux Machine.
Long Live the Stetson.
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:1)
Why is this moderated as funny? He has a valid point. Kevin Mitnick gets on the Internet and a few days later we're infected with a huge DDOS'ing worm? I doubt it's a coincidence. Somebody go arrest him immediately and hold him until we figure this out. ;-)
Re:Who did this I wonder????? (Score:1)