Re: code red goes on

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> Anyone noting trends between 7/20 and 8/2?  I've got 30 v. 49,
> respectively.  Looks like this is actually the bigger attack.

http://www.incidents.org says that we've already gotten more infected
machines than July 20th, although probes seem to have leveled off.

I've heard that this is a slight change on the original code red which
seeds the RNG used to pick hosts to try, and it's thus hitting lots of
hosts which weren't in the first round.

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