Terrorist? No, journalist

Computerworldrecently reported that Slammer was the work of a terrorist group. As it turns out, a reporter had squatted on a terror group’s domain name and taken the site over– he was the one who made the claim. Computerworld has retracted the original story and posted an explanation. The reporter in question, Brian McWilliams, has done a couple of other slimy things, too, as described in the . Keep this in mind the next time you see a mass-media story about anything having to do with computer security (and, beware of security shops like Mi2g.com that fall for this kind of hoax– would you trust them to provide accurate data if they’re taken in by something like this?)