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● 08.10.09

●● DDoS is a Virus!

Posted in Humour, Microsoft, Search, Security, Windows at 3:06 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: DDoS is really just another virus, or is it?

AS WE pointed out before [1, 2, 3], Twitter issues were caused by Windows-based computers that got infected and became part of a botnet. But here is a nice new example of miscomprehension in the press.

=> 1 | 2 | 3 | ↺ nice new example

As you might notice, the portuguese article is a copy from the guardian, which was imprecise and the local clueless reporter just turn it worse. Calling DDoS a virus, saying that the attack was for London and putting the information leak paragraph out of any context, it just reveals how bad are tech reporters here.

Truthfully, these DDoS attacks did cause some further issues of spam and scareware, and even developers were caught in the crossfire. But DDoS is not a virus; by definition, however, Windows is both spyware and malware (albeit a very expensive and complex piece of malware).

=> ↺ did cause some further issues of spam and scareware | ↺ developers were caught in the crossfire

In other interesting news, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has just been cracked. It is a cross-site scripting issue, but such issues can sometimes be assisted and exacerbated by a weak stack, as evidenced by ~500,000 massively-cracked IIS-powered Web sites, which became victims due to similar vulnerabilities. That was last year. Needless to say (because it’s the UK), the MoD is a Windows shop. Lessons learned, if any? █

=> ↺ has just been cracked | ↺ a Windows shop

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