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DJ Internet/Interrupted -3: Comml Sites Coming Back -Expert



"The impact of this worm was huge," agreed Ben Koshy of W3 International Media
Ltd., which operates thousands of Web sites from its computers in Vancouver.
"It's a very significant attack."
Koshy added that, about six hours after the attack, commercial Web sites that
had been overwhelmed were starting to come back online as engineers began
effectively blocking the malicious data traffic.
"People are recovering from it," Koshy said.
Symantec Corp., an antivirus vendor, estimated that at least 22,000 systems
were affected worldwide.
"Traffic itself seems to have leveled off a little bit, so likely only so many
systems are exposed out there," said Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager with
Symantec Security Response. The attacking software, technically known as a worm,
was overwhelming Internet traffic-directing devices known as routers.
"The Internet is still usable, but we're definitely receiving reports from
some of our customers who have had it affect their routers specifically,"
Friedrichs said.

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DJ Internet/Interrupted -2: Similar To `Code Red' Virus



WASHINGTON (AP)--Traffic on the many parts of the Internet slowed dramatically
early Saturday, the apparent effects of a fast-spreading, virus-like infection
overwhelming the world's digital pipelines and interfering with Web browsing and
delivery of e-mail.
Sites monitoring the health of the Internet reported significant slowdowns
globally. Experts said the latest electronic attack bore remarkable similarities
to the "Code Red" virus during the summer of 2001 which also ground traffic to a
halt on much of the Internet.
"It's not debilitating," said Howard Schmidt, President George W. Bush's No. 2
cyber-security adviser. "Everybody seems to be getting it under control."
Schmidt said the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center and private
experts at the CERT Coordination Center were monitoring the attacks.
The virus-like attack sought out vulnerable computers to infect on the
Internet using a known flaw in popular database software from Microsoft Corp.
(MSFT), called "SQL Server." But the attacking software code was scanning for
victim computers so randomly and so aggressively - sending out thousands of
probes each second - that it overwhelmed many Internet data pipelines.
"This is like Code Red all over again," said Marc Maiffret, an executive with
eEye Digital Security, whose engineers were among the earliest to study samples
of the attack software. "The sheer number of attacks is eating up so much
bandwidth that normal operations can't take place."
The attack sought to take advantage of a software flaw discovered in July 2002
that permits hackers to infect corporate database servers. Microsoft deemed the
problem "critical" and offered a free repairing patch, but it was impossible to
know how many computer administrators applied the fix.
"People need to do a better job about fixing vulnerabilities," Schmidt said.

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