Code Red Prompts AT&T to Unplug Customer Web Sites
Alfred Qaeda
alqaeda at hq.org
Thu Aug 9 13:18:31 PDT 2001
Is it a DDoS when a worm causes administrative DoS? (firewalling,
enforcing
a previously non-enforced contract..) If so, Code Red & Microsoft win
again.
Really too bad; a lot of the residential customers would not be running
IIS but something
else on other-than-NT systems.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010808/wr/tech_codered_att_dc_1.html
Worms Prompt AT&T to Unplug Customer Web Sites
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -
To keep the spread of the Code
Red worms from slowing
down its cable Internet
network, AT&T Corp.
(NYSE:T - news) is blocking
access to Web servers that
residential customers are
running, a spokeswoman said
on Wednesday.
``We are trying to protect our
greater user population as a whole,'' said AT&T
spokeswoman Sarah Eder. The company provides
cable Internet access to 1.35 million residential
customers, she said.
By blocking incoming traffic to Web servers,
AT&T is effectively shutting down the Web sites,
which residential customers are not supposed to
be operating anyway, Eder said.
``According to our official use policy, customers
are not permitted to operate Web servers behind
cable modems,'' she said.
Commercial customers of AT&T's cable Internet
service are not affected, she added.
The Code Red worms spread through a hole in
Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Information Server
Web software running on Windows NT and 2000
computers and then scan the Internet looking for
new computers to infect.
Code Red II, which surfaced on Saturday, leaves a
``back door'' on infected computers, making them
vulnerable to future hacking.
Code Red II also spreads more quickly, looking
for computers in close proximity or the same
network to infect rather than random computers
on the Internet, like Code Red I does.
This scanning of the local neighborhoods is
slowing down cable modem networks, where
subscribers share bandwidth.
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