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Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open"

Submitted by MacRonin on January 12, 2009 - 2:31pm.
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Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open" - Via Slashdot:

Heise Security reports that a 'team of researchers from Bonn University and RWTH Aachen University have analysed the notorious Storm Worm botnet, and concluded it certainly isn't as invulnerable as it once seemed. Quite the reverse, for in theory it can be rapidly eliminated using software developed and at least partially disclosed by Georg Wicherski, Tillmann Werner, Felix Leder and Mark Schlösser. However it seems in practice the elimination process would fall foul of the law.

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