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Cornficker (Watch Yer Mouth, This Is a Family-Friendly Blog)

Regular readers of this blog — and the three of you know who you are — remember that back in January John Markoff of the NY Times wrote about the Cornficker Internet worm and used some over-the-top quotes. Well he’s back with an update:

“An examination of the program [Cornficker C] reveals that the zombie computers are programmed to try to contact a control system for instructions on April 1. There has been a range of speculation about the nature of the threat posed by the botnet, from a wake-up call to a devastating attack.”

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on March 19, 2009 (boomark / email).