Government concerned about MySpooler worm
News The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) has issued an alert over the MySpooler worm reported yesterday, which threatens Windows servers with weak passwords for root access to MySQL.
[January 28, 2005, 17:25]
MySQL worm stopped
News More than 8,000 Windows computers running the MySQL database were probably infected with the worm, referred to as MySpooler or by the name of the executable file, SpoolCLL, that the worm installs on vulnerable machines.
[January 31, 2005, 8:15]
Worm hijacks open source database
News Update: Since this story was published, security experts have reported that MySpooler only affects Windows machines running MySQL with poor password protection for root access. Security experts have warned that thousands of Windows machines running...
[January 27, 2005, 16:40]
