Italian Senate in gay porn worm attack outrage

November 25, 2004

I think I like this story because of the title more than anything else….

The Register: Proceedings in the Italian Senate were disrupted this week after hackers used a computer worm to display hardcore gay porn on computer monitors.

Computers in the Senate chamber, and Senator’s office, were affected by the attack which used variants of the Rbot worm to disseminate smut across the upper house of the Italian parliament. The Rbot family of worms includes a backdoor component which allows crackers to seize control of infected computers, steal information or in this case redirect users towards “inappropriate” content.