Worm's Potential

From: Jimmy Sadri (jimmys@private)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2001 - 16:04:43 PDT

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       Has anyone thought of that whoever wrote this worm could have done much
    worse?  Somehow I think that if someone where to take this code and change
    it so it affects all versions (Not just English) of MS IIS server and then
    attack a DNS name like www.microsoft.com or www.yahoo.com I think we'd be
    in big trouble... Since this worm only affected the English version of IIS
    that leaves the rest of the IIS servers out there in the world still
    potentially vulnerable.  Like I said maybe whoever wrote this worm wanted
    to have a second shot at it by only infecting English version boxes he now
    only has to modify his code a little bit to have another shot this time
    fixing where he went wrong... attacking an IP address that can be easily
    changed instead of attacking the name www.whitehouse.gov
    
    Just some food for thought...
    
    
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    Jimmy Sadri                           jimmys@private
    Network Engineer/                     jimmys@private
    Security Consultant
    



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