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I know this is going to be a bit of a geeky post. But i recently finished writing a brief report on various network/computer security issues such as worms, viruses, DoS attacks and logic bombs.

After briefly reading about the Storm Worm which was discovered on January 17th 2007 which quickly propagated across the whole of the globe infecting massive amounts of computers. It was estimated to have infected between 250,000 - 50,000,000 (depending on who’s views you consider). It formed a huge botnet of zombie machine’s which some experts believed had the potential power to take entire countries off the Internet if the creator(s) decided to. It is also believed to have more computing power then today’s top super computers such as blue gene.

The worm is said to be declining though due to patches released by Microsoft which limit it’s capacities, however it is still  in operation.

You can read more about the worm here, and also about the botnet it had here.

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