Bloggers and other media types will find any excuse to put Anna Kournikova in a story. Why? Well, obviously, the mere mention of her name results in an instantaneous doubling of page views for a website. That must the reason why some (myself included) are marking the 10th anniversary of the Anna Kournikova worm today. The worm, which attacked computers when hapless victims (aka suckers) clicked on a link to what would be photos of Kournikova, is said to have been "the first to be created by someone with a toolkit and little technical knowledge, setting the pattern for the relatively unskilled to use toolkits to create cybercrime Trojan variants that has become the dominant pattern of malware abuse today." Who knew Kournikova could be so scary?
Speaking of scary, here is every on-the-scene correspondent's nightmare: