{"id":3578,"date":"2005-08-16T18:58:22","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T18:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/worm-shuts-down-cnn-abc-and-new-york-times.html"},"modified":"2005-08-16T18:58:22","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T18:58:22","slug":"worm-shuts-down-cnn-abc-and-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/worm-shuts-down-cnn-abc-and-new-york-times.html","title":{"rendered":"Worm Shuts Down CNN, ABC and New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">The <b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Zotob<\/b> worm shut down Windows 2000 operating systems around the country today, including the computers at CNN, ABC, and the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/11681\">Outside The Beltway Blog.<\/a> Here is an excerpt.<\/p>\n<p>A computer worm shut down computer systems running Windows 2000 software across the <country-region w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">United States<\/place><\/country-region> on Tuesday, hitting computers at CNN, ABC and The New York Times. Around 5 p.m. computers began crashing at CNN facilities in <state w:st=\"on\">New York<\/state> and <city w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">Atlanta<\/place><\/city>. ABC said its problems began in <state w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">New York<\/place><\/state> about 1:30 p.m. The Caterpillar Co. in <place w:st=\"on\"><city w:st=\"on\">Peoria<\/city>, <state w:st=\"on\">Illinois<\/state><\/place> also was reportedly affected.<\/p>\n<p>David Perry of Trend Micro said that the attack seems to have been triggered by a new worm, called worm&#8211;rbot.ebq. He said the symptoms &#8212; computers repeatedly shutting down and rebooting &#8212; was consistent with that virus. Johannes Ullrich, director of the Sans Institute, a network security firm in <place w:st=\"on\"><city w:st=\"on\">Jacksonville<\/city>, <state w:st=\"on\">Florida<\/state><\/place>, said the outage also may have been caused by the Zotob worm, which was released last weekend. &quot;It will connect to a control server to ask for instructions. It scans network neighborhoods and tries to infect them, as well,&quot; Ullrich said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black\"><\/p>\n<p \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zotob worm shut down Windows 2000 operating systems around the country today, including the computers at CNN, ABC, and the New York Times. Take a look at this article from Outside The Beltway Blog. Here is an excerpt. A computer worm shut down computer systems running Windows 2000 software across the United States on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}