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| | Year of the Worm CNET News.com |
 | | Unlike worms and viruses, the purpose of a Trojan horse is not to spread, but to have a particular target--that is, a computer's owner--to run the program. | | | Because worms can't rely on file-to-file transfers to spread their code, they need to have a way of sending themselves to other computer systems. | | | The worms created with such generators can vary from benign mass mailers that clog e-mail gateways to vicious code that is the equivalent of the Ebola virus to computers. |
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http://news.com.com/2009-1001-254061.html
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| | Glossary of terms |
| | Spyware worm is a term used to describe malware that has the ability to self-replicate without a host program and send information from a computer to a third party without the user's permission or knowledge. | | | A spyware Trojan is a seemingly legitimate computer program designed to disrupt and damage computer activity by sending information from a computer to a third party without the user's permission or knowledge. | | | The BIOS is the very first piece of software which runs when your computer is switched on, so it must be present for your computer to work. |
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http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2001/11/va_glossary.html
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| | worm blog: papers |
| | The "worm" programs were an experiment in the development of distributed computations: programs that span machine boundaries and also replicate themselves in idle machines. | | | Critical to the design of effective worm counter measures in MANET environments is an understanding of the propagation mechanisms and the performance of the mitigation technologies. | | | Worms are self-replicating malicious programs that represent a major security threat for the Internet, as they can infect and damage a large number of vulnerable hosts at timescales where human responses are unlikely to be effective. |
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http://www.wormblog.com/papers
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| | W32/Nachi.worm |
| | The first is to detect the Vulnerability that the worm uses to exploit the machine. | | | To check whether the target machine is on the network, the worm sends an ICMP ping to potential victim machines, and upon a reply, sends the exploit data. | | | Infected systems that haven't been rebooted since the start of 2004, or computers with incorrect system clocks may still emit Nachi worm traffic. |
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http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100559.htm
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| | CNN.com - Computer worm grounds flights, blocks ATMs - Jan. 26, 2003 |
| | Worms of this nature are often precursors to a different type of attack called "distributed denial of service." In that case, computers infected with a worm or other program are directed to send a flood of information to a specific Internet location and force it off-line. | | | A fast-moving computer worm snarled business and government computers Saturday, slowing some corporate systems to the point of inaccessibility. | | | In many cases, a worm's creator brags about his or her activities online and is caught that way. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/25/internet.attack
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| | A Tour of the Worm |
| | If the worm's files are somehow captured before the worm can delete them, the object files have been loaded in such a way as to remove most non-essential symbol table entries, making it harder to guess at the purposes of worm routines from their names. | | | On the evening of November 2, 1988, a self-replicating program was released upon the Internet (1) This program (a worm) invaded VAX and Sun-3 computers running versions of Berkeley UNIX, and used their resources to attack still more computers (2). | | | The worm supplies the finger server with a request that is 536 bytes long; the bulk of the request is some VAX machine code that asks the system to execute the command interpreter sh and the extra 24 bytes represent just enough data to write over the server's stack frame for the main routine. |
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http://world.std.com/~franl/worm.html
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| | CAIDA : analysis : security : code-red |
| | If so, the worm generates a random list of IP addresses and probes each machine on the list in an attempt to infect as many computers as possible. | | | CAIDA's ongoing analysis of the Code-Red worms includes a detailed analysis of the spread of Code-Red version 2 on July 19, 2001, a follow-up survey of the patch rate of machines infected on July 19th, and dynamic graphs showing the prevalence of Code-Red version 2 and CodeRedII worldwide. | | | The bias towards the local /16 and /8 networks means that an infected machine may be more likely to probe a susceptible machine, based on the supposition that machines on a single network are more likely to be running the same software as machines on unrelated IP addresses. |
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http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/code-red
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| | The Morris Internet Worm |
| | The primary difference between worms and other illicit computer programs (often referred to as viruses) is the method of operation the programs use in order to reproduce and spread. | | | The first major distinction here, at least in comparison with worms, is that, until the user (inadvertently) activates the virus, the virus is dormant on the computer. | | | When a worm gains access to a computer (usually by breaking into it over the internet) it launches a program which searches for other internet locations, infecting them if it can. |
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http://www.snowplow.org/tom/worm/worm.html
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| | Symantec Security Response - W32.Welchia.Worm |
| | If a virus, worm, or Trojan infects a computer, System Restore may back up the virus, worm, or Trojan on the computer. | | | If the worm has been running continuously since 2003, it will not remove itself after January 1, 2004 unless you manually restart the computer or worm. | | | Once the update has been downloaded and executed, the worm restarts the computer so that the patch is installed. |
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http://securityresponse1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/html/w32.welchia.worm.html
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| | CERT Advisory CA-2001-26 Nimda Worm |
| | The worm modifies web documents (e.g.,.htm,.html, and.asp files) and certain executable files found on the systems it infects, and creates numerous copies of itself under various file names. | | | The Nimda worm creates numerous MIME-encoded copies of itself (using file names with.eml and.nws extensions) in all writable directories (including those found on a network share) to which the user has access. | | | Once running on the server machine, the worm traverses each directory in the system (including all those accessible through file shares) and writes a MIME-encoded copy of itself to disk using file names with.eml or.nws extensions (e.g., readme.eml). |
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http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-26.html
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| | F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: Santy |
| | If the worm is able to exploit the vulnerablity, it will attempt to transfer itself to the victim host in 20-byte chunks. | | | After the transfer is complete, the worm will use the exploit once again to execute the code using the system default Perl interpreter. | | | After the search has been performed, the worm parses the resulting page and attempts to exploit a vulnerability in phpBB software. |
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http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/santy_a.shtml
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| | CERT Advisory CA-2003-04 MS-SQL Server Worm |
| | The high volume of 1434/udp traffic generated by hosts infected with the worm trying to find and compromise other SQL Server computers may itself lead to performance issues (including possible denial-of-service conditions) for Internet-connected hosts or for those computers on networks with compromise hosts. | | | The worm targeting SQL Server computers is self-propagating malicious code that exploits the vulnerability described in | | | This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code on the SQL Server computer due to a stack buffer overflow. |
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http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-04.html
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| | WORM_MSBLAST.A - Description and solution |
| | This worm has been observed to continuously scan random IP addresses and send data to vulnerable systems on the network using port 135. | | | This worm, however, can only propagate into systems running Windows 2000 and XP. | | | On the following system dates, it performs a Distributed Denial Of Service attack against windowsupdate.com: |
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http://trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MSBLAST.A
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| | Nachi worm infected Diebold ATMs |
| | The machines were in an advanced line of Diebold ATMs built atop Windows XP Embedded, which, like most versions of Windows, was vulnerable to the RPC DCOM security bug exploited by Nachi, and its more famous forebear, Blaster. | | | "But worms are always going to be able to infect a lot more interesting machines than individual intruders are." Moreover, before reaching an ATM network, a human attacker would likely encounter more alluring high-finance targets along the way. | | | The incident highlights new dangers for financial institutions, as legacy ATMs running OS/2 and propriety communications protocols give way to more versatile and cost effective terminals built on Microsoft Windows and TCP/IP -- with all the attendant security problems. |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7517
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| | What is worm? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | (2) When used in all capital letters, WORM is an acronym for for write once, read many, an optical disk technology that allows you to write data onto a disk just once. | | | KnowledgeStorm: Computer Worm - Business technology search site offering software, service, reseller and hardware information on thousands of IT solutions. | | | After that, the data is permanent and can be read any number of times. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/w/worm.html
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| | Define worm - a Whatis.com definition |
| | In a computer, a worm is a self-replicating virus that does not alter files but resides in active memory and duplicates itself. | | | Worms use parts of an operating system that are automatic and usually invisible to the user. | | | It is common for worms to be noticed only when their uncontrolled replication consumes system resources, slowing or halting other tasks. |
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http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci213386,00.html
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| | WORM 2005 |
| | Significantly shorter papers will also be considered in terms of the degree to which they might contribute to the Workshop goals of fostering a worm-research community. | | | The vehicles for these outbreaks, malicious codes called "worms", take advantage of the combination of software monocultures and the uncontrolled Internet communication model to quickly compromise large numbers of hosts. | | | WORM aims to be a true workshop, with a primary goal of fostering the development of preliminary work and helping nucleate a worm-research community. |
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http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/worm05
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| | wormhome |
| | Worm is formatted as HTML we recommend you use up-to-date proprietary security. | | | Worm is a poetry selection that is distributed free via email every month or so. | | | The poems are read 'blind' ie: contributor's names are removed. |
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http://www.villarana.freeserve.co.uk/wormhome.htm
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| | WormBase - Home Page |
| | elegans II book (1997), The Mind of a Worm (White et al, 1986), The Genetics of C. | | | Worm Genome Sequence Centers Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute C. | | | Related Databases and Web Sites Nematode.net, Leon Avery's WWW, WormAtlas, Other Model Organism Databases Worm Meetings, and more (Resources) |
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| | Worm Composting |
| | This "how to" guideline is based on applied research and development rather than regurgitated myth, has been produced with regard to the real world realities of on-site and commercial scale vermiculture operations, and has been reviewed by commercial vermiculture practitioners. | | | Taking worms out of their natural environment and placing them in containers creates a human responsibility. | | | This brief introduction to worm composting is only a basic guide, and while we have tried to include all the necessary information to get you and your worms started, we recommend that you also read the book - it is full of useful and fascinating details about this process. |
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http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html#wormcompost
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| | Home |
| | See our MINI Worm Farm for a great science project. | | | Worm composting is an easy and fun way for people of all ages to recycle kitchen wastes. | | | Apartment dwellers, who have limited space, can vermicompost and make an all natural, all organic fertilizer which can be used on their indoor plants. |
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| | Sea and Sky: Sea Worms |
| | When threatened by predators, they quickly withdraw deep into their tube homes. | | | In the ocean, however, the worms have evolved many different appearances. | | | The Christmas Tree Worm gets its name from the Christmas tree shaped arrangement of its gills. |
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http://www.seasky.org/reeflife/sea2c.html
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| | ring worm |
| | As if some ugly, ring-shaped worm creature was crawling around under. | | | Browse through the site and take a deeper look at the worm world. | | | My son has a red rash on his head just above his. |
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http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/aiccul/ring_worm.html
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| | Worm World: About Earthworms |
| | And, hey, if you want to learn about other kinds of worms, don't forget to visit my cousins. | | | There are 4,400 species of worms - 2,700 different kinds of earthworms to be exact. | | | It's hard to image something more interesting than watching an earthworm give birth or seeing his five hearts beat. |
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http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/flash/worm/pg000102.html
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| | Worm Links |
| | mean everything, you would want to know about worms. | | | Be sure to bookmark this page or use your browser's BACK button to come back. | | | Meet the worm woman who started it all! |
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http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/wormlinks
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| | Sophos virus analyses |
| | They only cover a small proportion of the viruses, spyware, Trojans and worms detected by Sophos's virus protection products. |
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http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/index_st_worm.html
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| | WORM.station |
| | Alternatief kunst art, webart, sound sounds soundz electronic music muziek musica netart net_art radio worm tv televison broadcasting broadcaster. | | | Internet radio internet movies experimental experimentel experiment underground. |
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| | Worm Digest - Home |
| | Worm Digest is a Public Non-Profit 501(c)3 Organization. | | | Boosting Earthworm Populations and Fertilizing With Worm Castings |
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