At the moment we are not aware of any attacks that would have used this vulnerability.

We have seen dozens of different attacks using this vulnerability since Dec. 27. One exploits image files and tries to get users to click on them; another is an MSN Messenger worm that will send the worm to people on your buddy list, and we have seen several spam attacks.

Although the WMF bug is there (in the older versions), there's no known code at the moment to exploit it.

It's still climbing. It's not the worst we've seen, but the infection is sizable.

The Million Dollar Homepage can be down for days and it's not as critical, but these attackers knew he had money and went after him.

Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does.