{"id":453,"date":"2003-01-27T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2003-01-27T20:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=453"},"modified":"2003-01-27T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2003-01-27T20:20:19","slug":"virus-naming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2003\/01\/27\/virus-naming\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus Naming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who names these viruses?  The MS-SQL Server virus from this past weekend seems to be called &#8220;Slammer&#8221; or &#8220;Sapphire&#8221; or &#8220;SQ Hell&#8221;.  I&#8217;m sure the author is wearing that like a badge of honour (although not too openly, one should think, if they want to remain anonymous).  Maybe it would be useful to provide some disincentive by naming viruses differently &#8211; how keen would a haxx0r be to be known as the guy who wrote the &#8220;Author has a Tiny Dick&#8221; virus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who names these viruses? The MS-SQL Server virus from this past weekend seems to be called &#8220;Slammer&#8221; or &#8220;Sapphire&#8221; or &#8220;SQ Hell&#8221;. I&#8217;m sure the author is wearing that like a badge of honour (although not too openly, one should think, if they want to remain anonymous). Maybe it would be useful to provide some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}