The 2nd week of this month saw a large number of DDoS attacks on prominent US and South Korean web sites. Many thousands of compromised Windows PCs were used through a botnet to perform these attacks with a subtle variation of the Mydoom virus/worm. Considering that Mydoom was released in Jan 2004, it’s surprising ( or maybe not ) that Windows machines are still vulnerable. 5 years after the release of Mydoom, Windows users are still being targeted even after service packs, patches, Defenders and firewalls. Yet without Windows, Mydoom would not even exist.
It’s interesting that the US government will go after countries supposedly harbouring weapons of mass destruction based on the flimsiest of evidence, yet they flat out ignore the billions of dollars of damage caused by the insecurities of one of their own company’s products. For those tiring of these issues, there are alternatives …
