Saturday, January 25th, 2003

Time	Event
4:09p	next generation nimda virus ? Whoever is reading this.... please block UDP port 1434 (MS SQL server ) right away. Its practically taking the whole net down.. my servers are getting hammered with this [update] ( More details ) Disclaimer : I make no guarantees that this information is correct, test it out for yourself! (3 Comments | Comment on this)
6:45p	damn damn.. damn MS.. I am late for the concert thanks to them. <update> I managed to get to the rockarama concert. Kryptos sucked real bad. Motherjane and Molotov Cocktail were really good. I should have bought their cd there .. ( was kinda broke ). In other news.. mrinal's car was broken into and his car audio system got stolen. and most of all they took away the only copy of the cryptic's new cd. </update> (1 Comment | Comment on this)
11:24p	more on the ms-sql worm - cricinfo was not accessible ( manu pointed this out ) - 5 out of the 13 DNS root servers went down - 95% ( thats right , no typo ) packet loss across UUnet / Worldcom. - upto 210MB/sec traffic seen on some routers. - if you plug an infected machine into a port on an HP4000 switch it would freeze. anyway the traffic seems to be going down slowly.. and hopefully I can get some sleep tonight. many people have asked me how to filter it out on their linux box. So here you go : /sbin/iptables -I FORWARD -p udp --dport 1434 -j DROP <more updates> - (At least some) Boeing employees were sent home today because the network was reportedly hosed. I wonder how many other major companies with moderate security concerns were hit... - Reports are coming in that HP was hit pretty bad too - In South Korea internet services were shut down nationwide for hours on Saturday. - MS Sucks real bad : microsoft.com is not accessible and they dont have mirrors of the site.. so people hitting microsoft.com for the latest patch are not able to get it - Bank of America Corp. said Saturday that customers at a majority of its 13,000 automatic teller machines were unable to process customer transactions after a malicious computer worm nearly froze Internet traffic worldwide. (4 Comments | Comment on this)

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