The worm that crippled tens of thousands of computers worldwide, congested the network for countless others and even disabled Bank of America cash machines took advantage of a vulnerability in some Microsoft Corp. software that had been discovered in July.
Microsoft had made software updates available to patch the vulnerability in its SQL Server 2000 software - used mostly by businesses and governments - but many system administrators had yet to install them when the attack hit Saturday.
There was a lot that could have been done between July and now,'' said Howard A. Schmidt, President Bush's No. 2 cybersecurity adviser. ``We make sure we have air in our tires and brakes get checked. We also need to make sure we keep computers up-to-date.
The FBI said Sunday that the attack's origin was still unknown.
As the worm infected one computer, it was programmed to seek other victims by sending out thousands of probes a second, saturating many Internet data pipelines.
Unlike most viruses and worms, it spread directly through network connections and did not need e-mail as a carrier. Thus, only network administrators who run the servers, not end users, could do anything to remedy the situation.
Ok I could go on but it's really boring isn't it? We only knew about it because Morgan Stanley, the company that Morpheus works for, called first thing Saturday morning saying that they're system had been affected and that they were dealing with the situation, so of course he was on red alert for most of Saturday. I myself, couldn't get online until yesterday, which rendered me helpless to do any work on Saturday afternoon, which clearly was a bummer, therefore making it only possible for me to lie around my bed all day reading the New York Times and watching movies like "About a Boy", which by the way is fantastic, go rent it, you'll love it, really superb.
Hey you have to suffer life's little consequences sometimes.
Listen if most of this page has bored you then I'm sorry, it's Monday and I'm really trying to get my shit together, so please bare with me.
So the Tampa Bay boys did good at the Superbowl last night? Even though me and Morpheus didn't have a clue as to who to support, until we met David and Roger outside the gym. I got Roger's name wrong, which was kind of embarrassing, especially as this guy is SOOO hot I can't even tell you. So where was I? Oh yeah so they told us to support Oakland Raiders, but it happens that Hermes had put money on the Tamp Bay boys so we stuck with them, good job really as the others were crap...
The best thing for me last night was watching "Alias", especially the scene where she gets to snog Vaughn, oh god it was great, he is seriously cute that guy. But so many twists, wow it was brilliant, so now what's going to happen, it's like it's been totally revamped and freshened up, adding lots of yummy new naughty characters...what fun!!
Ok so soon I will head off to the gym, and this time it's to be nosey as opposed to 'working out'. Well according to my pal Gabrielle there was a big bloody transvestite in there yesterday who insisted on changing in the WOMEN'S changing rooms. Clearly this was a "no no" as Gabrielle went ballistic and complained to everyone that would listen.
So I put it to you, my faithful followers, what's the deal? For me personally if a man is so convinced that he is a woman, to the point where he not only has manicures, hair extensions, leg waxing, but is thinking about having his genitalia removed, then COME IN GIRL, you deserve it. HOWEVER, if it's just some girly fag, who decides to put on a dress every now and again, even though he has a handle-bar moustache, then no, fuck off, go into the men's room.
I want comments please, because this clearly isn't a situation that is completely cut and dry. However I WILL let y'all know what happened yesterday and what decision they made.
later peeps....
