RE: Re:::::: future happenings..

["gml" <gml () phrick net>]

You all focus on a worms potential for destruction too much.
What about threats that affect the real world. For instance
Theft of data on a massive scale. We've already seen worms
That do this.  Or worse DDOS networks that can be uses as weapons
Against foreign governments or even our own to disrupt or confuse.
I think wiping the HDD of machine is probably too overt and furthermore
Rather pointless as it will make it that much harder for the worm to spread
Once the damage is done.  For instance if the machine reboots, the OS will
Fail to boot and the worm will fail to go on another run.  I'd start looking
More towards the "blended threat" as Symantec seems to put it. And more
Advanced tools allowing people to create worms without much technical
knowledge.  There are a few already out there, I'm certain this will
Only get worse.

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of yossarian
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:14 PM
To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Subject: Re: Re:::::: [Full-disclosure] future happenings..

Well, basically, any OS on any platform will be vulnerable when people don't
upgrade - when people care to write a virus or worm for it. Thats why MS is
affected - why code for the few BeOS users? They might all three be on
holiday and the worm might dud.
At least we'll have enough bandwidth then. Kidding aside - worse worms can
be made, and probably will be. It is an arms race. Technically much worse is
possible. Whiping HDD is one thing, set track0=bad or reprogramming parts of
standard hardware might be worse - like going after a pentium4 processor or
the BIOS.


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Subject: Re:::::: [Full-disclosure] future happenings..


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> > Just reading through how easily this worm (RPC/DCOM/MSBlast) is
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> > and how widespread it is, and the potential number of infected systems
> - - do
> > some of you lot think its feasible that sometime in the future someone
> will
> > release a worm that DOES completely wipe the hard disks or do something
> > equally nasty to its host AFTER sending itself on to 'x' recipients?
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