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Man oh man, last night was exciting for the Internet. A new worm was released
by China on the 13th, called Code Red, which
exploited a widely known hole in Microsoft's IIS web server software. However
due once again to administrator incompetence, there are tons of computers who
hadn't fixed that hole and thus were vulnerable. At current count, almost
200,000 machines have this worm. So anyways, what this worm does is from the
13th to the 19th it scanned the internet looking for vulnerable computers. If it
found one, it exploited the security hole, and produced a page that looked like
this. Then on the 20th, it was supposed to start a denial of service
attack on Whitehouse.gov. Fortunatly,
the person who wrote the worm used the IP address of whitehouse.gov instead of
just the DNS name, so the whitehouse.gov people just changed the ip address of
their server, and so the worm had no effect. However
should the auther have not used just the ip address, then it would have severly
affected the internet as millions upon millions of megabytes would have been
flowing through it. It could have been REALLY bad. Things like this will only
become more common to, as internet warfare escalates.
32 years ago today man walked on the moon for the first time. And then to think we haven't been to the moon since the 70's. So sad, so sad.
In other sad news, Mr. Rogers is "retiring". He will no longer be making new shows after this year. He's been doing Mr. Rogers for 33 years, and has produced over 1,000 episodes for children's enjoyment. I know I used to watch him every day when I was a kid, and it was one of my favorite TV shows, behind Reading Rainbow of course.
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