On Wed, 09 February 2000, Rodney Caston wrote:
It's because people are being very closed mouthed with this, the corps either have no idea what is going on or do not wish to share what they know, and those involved with the attacks have done a good job of keeping silent. Besides comparing Morris's worm to what is going on now is hardly fair, the net was a very different place then, and his cpu cycle hog of a program was alot easier to deal with and detect.
In past cases, the "crackers" have eventually been caught not by closed-mouth corps and law enforcement, but by "civilians." The closed-mouthness just seems to be extending the list of victims because the later ones didn't know how to protect themselves until after they got hit. Then after a few hours of downtime, they figure out which filters to install. Wouldn't it be nice to know what filters to install to protect your web site before it gets hit?