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New Mydoom variant carries dangerous payload By Edward Hurley, News Writer 25 Feb 2004 | SearchSecurity.com Yet another Mydoom worm has hit but instead of targeting Linux-foe The SCO Group, the new variant targets Web sites of eternal whipping boy Microsoft and song-swapper foe Recording Industry Association of America. Functionally, Mydoom-F is very similar to Mydoom-A. So much so that experts think the creator of the variant used the source code of Mydoom-A to create it. Mydoom-B dropped the source code of Mydoom-A when it was spreading so the code is generally available. Mydoom-F does something different than its...

Feb 12, 10:23 PM (ET) By ALLISON LINN SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said late Thursday that portions of its Windows source code - the tightly guarded blueprints of its dominant operating system - had been leaked over the Internet. Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla said in an interview with The Associated Press that some incomplete portions of the Windows 2000 and Windows NT4 source code had been "illegally made available on the Internet." Access to the source code could allow hackers to exploit the operating system and attack machines running Windows, which is used on hundreds of millions of...