[LINK] < 15 minutes to infect a million machines

From: Danny Yee (danny@anatomy.usyd.edu.au)
Date: Sat Aug 11 2001 - 18:21:48 EST


http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/warhol.html

With the right algorithm, a worm exploiting a bug like the Windows/IIS
one used by Code Red could infect every vulnerable machine on the
Net *in less than 15 minutes*.

Danny.



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