Internet Broadcasting Sites Experience Record Traffic As Winter Storms Sweep Across the Midwest and Northeast
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Internet Broadcasting, the nation's largest  publisher of local news online, today announced that it experienced  record traffic on Tuesday, February 13, due to winter weather that swept  across the Midwest and Northeast.
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As much as a foot of snow fell from the Plains across the Midwest on Saturday as the second big winter storm in a week barreled through on its way to New England.
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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Up to a foot of snow was possible in parts of Indiana and Ohio as a storm spread into the region Wednesday, and motorists already were sliding off roads.
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Some clever, sexy Christmas-themed spam and a long holiday season helped the criminals behind the notorious&#160;Storm Worm&#160;more than double their network of infected PCs over the past few weeks, security experts say.Storm kicked off its holiday spam-and-malware campaign on the day before Christmas, sending off a flurry of e-mail that invited victims to visit a&#160;Christmas-themed strip show&#160;on Web sites such as Merrychristmasdude.com. Victims who downloaded the strip show found their PCs attacked by malicious software.This site, and about 14 other Storm-related domains, was registered using a Russian domain name registrar called Nic.ru, where staff was largely unavailable during the holidays, according to Richard Cox, the chief information officer with the Spamhaus anti-spam effort.&quot;The trouble was they were quite simply out to Christmas lunch,&quot; Cox said. &quot;And they didn&#39;t get back until Wednesday.&quot;Spamhaus representatives tried to contact the registrar on Dec. 26, but they soon discovered that the company was essentially shut down. Four days later they received an e-mail from a Nic.ru employee saying that they would have to wait until staff returned to work in January before anything could be done, Cox said.Storm&#39;s creators took advantage of another common problem in the domain name registration system. They targeted a registrar that did not have an established policy for taking down malicious domains, so that gave the criminals a little more time to run their scam, Cox said.By Wednesday of this week, Nic.ru had removed the Storm-related domains from its database, knocking the criminal network&#39;s Web sites offline.But now security experts say that Storm has more than doubled in size, adding about 25,000 PCs to a network that had been 20,000 strong.Storm&#39;s creators also changed the configuration of their malware, making it harder for security software to detect it, and this helped inflate the number of infections, Cox said.The Christmas campaign was &quot;pretty effective at growing the botnet,&quot; said Jose Nazario, senior security engineer at Arbor Networks. &quot;The contributing factors there were clearly the successful timing, tied to a major Western holiday, coupled with tweaks to the malware to avoid antivirus detection.&quot;Storm Worm has been attacking computer users since January 2007, when it began tricking victims into downloading malicious software, claiming that it was a video of violent storms that had been ravaging Europe.Since then it has been one of the most virulent sources of malware, although it has shrunk in size as detection methods have improved. Recently the network appears to have begun renting out its infected PCs to phishers, according to some researchers.&quot;Storm is an insidious pest. We&#39;ve learned essentially how to manage it,&quot; said Nazario. But, he added, the success of this Christmas campaign proves that the network can still be a serious threat. &quot;They&#39;re great marketers,&quot; he said.&#160;
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DENVER, Feb. 24 -- A large, fast-moving snowstorm closed sections of major highways in the Plains on Saturday and threatened to dump more than a foot of snow on the Upper Midwest.
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A winter storm delivered a White Christmas to parts of the Midwest, causing some traffic accidents and flight delays but no major problems with fewer travelers taking to the roads and sky on Tuesday.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 1 -- A surprising early winter storm rolled across the central United States overnight and today, stranding airline passengers, shutting schools and leaving hundreds of thousands of households in darkness due to ice and wet snow.
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Snow, sleet and freezing rain pelted the northern Midwest and northeastern states Friday.
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Severe snowstorms over broad swaths of eastern and central China have wreaked havoc on traffic throughout the country.
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As part of an effort to expand local content, Internet portal company Yahoo! Wednesday night began offering Web surfers information about current traffic conditions for the largest US metro areas.
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The first major snowstorm of the season blew across the Plains and Midwest on Thursday, grounding hundreds of flights, closing schools, glazing highways and threatening to dump up to a foot of snow on communities that had basked in balmy weather only days earlier.
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CINCINNATI, Ohio  - A winter storm barreled out of  the U.S. Midwest on Thursday, creating misery for holiday  travelers, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of  people and breaking snowfall records.
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A powerful storm system pounded a large swath of the nation's midsection on Tuesday, spawning everything from heavy snow and numbing cold to hail and possible tornadoes, and forecasters warned more could be on the way.
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A major snowstorm was moving through the U.S. Midwest causing transportation hang-ups, making it difficult to move grain and livestock to terminal markets, a private forecaster said on Tuesday.
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A winter storm brought near-blizzard conditions to much of the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday, forcing schools to close and disrupting transportation across the region, while a deadly New Orleans tornado ripped through New Orleans.
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A major snowstorm was moving through  the U.S. Midwest causing transportation hang-ups, making it  difficult to move grain and livestock to terminal markets, a  private forecaster said on Tuesday.