The looming threat prompted Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response Team to release an advisory last month. Stacheldraht agents have been spotted on Solaris machines, and a version appears to be available for Linux as well. That isn't exactly heartening news for network administrators at the sites attacked this week. We were serving content but it was very inconsistent and very little. Rosensweig says he thinks ZDNet was targeted because of its big-name recognition, but he says he has no idea what's driving the hackers.
Details are few.
Experts said that if history was any indication, the vast majority of unwitting systems that were taken over and are participating in the attack are inside university systems. The FBI met Tuesday with Yahoo representatives and declined to comment. Send it . Use this version. E-mail this to a friend.