How humans behave when faced with a disaster, natural or
man-made, can be exploited automatically by news-aware
malicious software. We introduce weather worms, worms
that can automatically identify abnormal events and their
location, and target computers at that physical location.
Such worms could be used to take advantage of poorlydefended
computers in a disaster zone, and could amplify
the effects of a physical attack. Defenses against weather
worms require examination of policy and presentation of information
on the Internet.
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