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Great whitepaper on the coming "superworm" -- something I've been predicting for a year or two -- from Brandon "Freenet" Wiley.

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Grasping each superworm by the head, dip three-fourths of its body into the batter.

Recipe: Superworm Tempura 2011

The body should be lightly coated; any excess batter can be shed by gently running the superworm across the lip of the bowl.

Recipe: Superworm Tempura 2011

With a slotted spoon, turn each superworm once or twice.

Recipe: Superworm Tempura 2011

In the event of another superworm attack (say a Warhol Worm version of NIMDA or CodeRed) core Internet routers may indeed fail, spoiling routing tables and making it impossible for some points to open connections to other points.

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We did a panel last year at SXSW about the near-inevitability of a superworm -- a worm that coordinates it actions among infected hosts and launches a massive distributed denial of service attack on any hosts it can't infect using those it can -- and the doomsday scenario ended up frightening even us.

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Superworms depend on tables of all vulnerable computers, and the combination of directory services, routability and common services seems ideally suited ot superworm deployment.

Boing Boing: October 7, 2001 - October 13, 2001 Archives 2001

The Badtrans-B virus is the latest superworm that's chewing its way through Windows boxen with unpatched copies of Outlook at Internet speed.

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Nothing but a superworm could deserve such scorn as that.

Too Many Cooks Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1938

New clues about Stuxnet provide the strongest evidence yet that the superworm targeted a nuclear enrichment plant in Iran, according to a new report.

Wired Top Stories Kim Zetter 2011