Witty 'probably An ISS Inside Job'
News A year after the Witty worm infected over 12,000 servers worldwide in just 75 minutes, researchers say they have discovered where the worm started and that the attack might have been an inside job. The techniques developed in our study, while...
[May 26, 2005, 16:15]
Witty Worm Proves Patching 'not Viable' - Research
News The Witty worm first hit computers known to be vulnerable and emerged so quickly that most companies had no time to apply a patch, according a recent report by US-based academics. Compared with the Microsoft SQL Slammer worm, which infected 70,000...
[March 29, 2004, 10:15]
ISS Products Targeted By Witty Worm
News The worm, dubbed Witty.A, was designed to breach a security hole in the company's widely used firewall product line-ups such as its BlackICE and RealSecure software series. However, Witty was designed to target a flaw in software used in ISS...
[March 22, 2004, 9:05]
ISS Slammed For 'selling' Security Patches
News Last week, this left about 12,000 computers vulnerable to the Witty worm, which has proved one of the most destructive worms to be released for a number of years. The Witty worm started to spread less than two days after a flaw in Internet Security...
[March 30, 2004, 15:40]
ISS Opens Witty Worm Patch To All Customers
News Internet Security Systems (ISS) has lifted the restrictions it had placed on out-of-contract customers who were initially denied the ability to download a security patch in order to protect themselves from the destructive Witty worm, which took...
[April 5, 2004, 17:35]
Security - Embedded Into The Heart Of Your Business
White Papers With continued attacks, such as the recent Witty Worm, it is hardly surprising that businesses worldwide continue to dedicate valuable IT budgets to securing their networks, with IDC predicting spending to exceed $48 billion in 2004.
[June 5, 2004, 1:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But if you're relying on security software -- oh, let's say ISS's BlackIce or RealSecure -- to defend yourself from a nasty beastie -- the ill-named Witty worm, for the sake of argument -- and you subsequently find that the worm takes advantage of...
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
Hackers Striking More Suddenly
News And the Witty worm hit a mere two days after the flaw in a security product allowed it to spread. The creator of the Slammer worm gave network administrators six months to patch their systems before releasing the worm in January 2003.
[July 29, 2004, 9:20]
ISS Reveals Cross-platform Antivirus Flaw
News The subsequent Witty worm exploited the security hole to spread to a modest number of computers on the Internet. Internet Security Systems has found a flaw in Trend Micro's virus-scanning software -- the third time this month that the security...
[February 25, 2005, 8:55]
