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The Storm Worm

May 27th, 2008 S.Richmond 2 comments

This is a white paper i did for uni last semester that i’m actually quite proud of. A lot of research and work went into it and amazingly i had fun doing it too. Its quite an eye opener.

Abstractthis paper will discuss and disseminate how the Storm Worm operates and the most current forms of mitigation and removal. Considering that its success can be largely attributed to the number of ways in which it can distribute itself, stay aware of the environment it is in, and the use of some intriguing techniques to avoid termination this worm in particular calls for caution.

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Windows Server 2008 + PHP + MySQL + WordPress

May 22nd, 2008 S.Richmond No comments

= Success!

I’ve got to say, Windows Server 2008 is an amazing piece of software. On the surface it feels very clean and simple, yet still very powerful. I’d suggest to anyone who hasn’t tryed it yet, to give it a good go. It is worth it, if not for Server 2008 as a whole, but for IIS7.