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Friday, March 29 2024

Code Red, The White House, and Bruce Schneier.

Hackers

Partly to satisfy some people who have been asking for new content on my site, but mostly to shed some light on the whole CodeRed debacle, I am posting Bruce Schneier's commentary on CodeRed.

To serve as counterpoint, I'm also linking to Steve Gibson's "analysis" of CodeRed. The technical analysis of CodeRedII is surprisingly quite good -- but that's not surprising since it was totally lifted without clear citation from SANS' intrusions@incidents.org mailing list. As you all know, just as Steve predicted, this CLEARLY WAS the biggest news of the first week in August, and "all hell broke loose" when the worm RE-ACTIVATED and BROUGHT DOWN THE ENTIRE INTERNET !! OK, he never actually claimed that the worm would bring down the net, but he did imply serious problems would result, as well as putting in yet another plug for his war against XP.

As Bruce's commentary points out, however, although CodeRed has serious implications for Internet security, the Internet survived and will continue to survive, worms and all.

posted by Loki on Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:23:48 -0500