Links can become inactive.
The SANS Institute's Global Incident Analysis Center uncovered a dangerous new worm Friday that appears to be spreading across the Internet. The Lion worm scans the Internet looking for Linux computers with a known vulnerability. The worm reportedly installs other hacking tools and forces the infected machine to scan the Internet looking for other victims, according to SANS security experts. The worm also kills the syslogd file so the logging on the system can't be trusted. Important messages from overseas customers disappear into the global IP void.