Storm Worm Botnet More Powerful Than Top Supercomputers

Information Week's article, "Storm Worm Botnet More Powerful Than Top Supercomputers," discusses the Storm Worm and how it has more power than top supercomputers. Adam Swidler, a senior manager with security company Postini, is quoted as saying "If you calculate pure theoretical throughput, then I'm sure the botnet has more capacity than [IBM(IBM)'s] BlueGene. If you sat them down to play chess, the botnet would win." The article goes on to say,

Since the botnet won't be entered in any supercomputer competition, what does this mean? The botnet actually is attacking computers that are trying to weed it out. It's set up to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack against any computer that is scanning network for vulnerabilities or malware. The warning noted that researchers have seen "numerous" Storm-related DoS attacks recently.