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Sapphire/Slammer Worm Attacks
News We reported that as of Jan.about 120,000 systems had been attacked by Sapphire and that it had completely overwhelmed some South Korean ISPs. Known by various names, including W32.SQLExp.Worm, DDOS_SQLP1434.A, and most commonly, Slammer or Sapphire...
[January 28, 2003, 9:42]
Sapphire When Ready For Laser Chips
News A tiny chip made from silicon and sapphire and including banks of microscopic lasers may be the future of fast computing, say researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. The researchers have adapted an existing technology called silicon...
[January 8, 2002, 17:45]
Sapphire Plug-ins For Mac
Downloads GenArts Sapphire Plug-ins includes over 200 2D visual effects for the post production, film, broadcast and digital video industries. Sapphire Plug-ins extend the capabilities of editing and compositing workstations including Adobe After Effects (AE...
[March 19, 2008, 0:46]
Sapphire Plug-ins For Windows
Downloads GenArts Sapphire Plug-ins includes over 200 2D visual effects for the post production, film, broadcast and digital video industries. Sapphire Plug-ins extend the capabilities of editing and compositing workstations including Adobe After Effects (AE...
[March 19, 2008, 0:46]
Sapphire SuDoku
Downloads The Ultimate Sudoku game for the PC. Generate unlimited games, enter in your own games and get help solving them.x4, 6x6, 8x8, 9x9, 16x16 and 25x25 sized grids Show Possibilities and Highlight Symbol tools Hints along with explanations, multiple...
[August 23, 2007, 13:46]
Peregrine Optical Chips Ready To Fly
News The gem sapphire, says Peregrine Semiconductor, is a network chip's best friend. The communications chipmaker will announce next week plans to apply its own silicon-on-sapphire technology, currently in wireless and satellite communications chips...
[March 13, 2001, 8:07]
Worm Exposes Laziness And Microsoft Bugs
News The Sapphire worm that hit servers running Microsoft SQL this weekend was a wake-up call for anyone who thought the Internet had become a safer place following increased attention by corporate and government leaders.
[January 27, 2003, 7:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Peter Kirwan at the Fullrunner, the marketing and communications professional's guide to the UK tech marcomms scene, is quite taken with freelance Dennis Howlett's analysis of how SAP managed a team of bloggers at its Sapphire user conference.
[June 16, 2006, 18:50]
Oracle Starts SME Push
News In making the announcements, Oracle took direct aim at SAP, which is expected to detail its latest mid-market plans at its Sapphire conference, which begins tomorrow in Boston. SAP is expected to make major mid-market strategy announcements at...
[May 17, 2005, 9:40]
Peakflow Defends Networks Against Zero-Day Threats
White Papers At approximately 12:30am EST on January 25, the Sapphire worm - also known as Slammer and SQLExp - infected more than 120,000 computers, overwhelming many corporate and service provider networks. It disrupted hundreds of thousands of systems...
[November 20, 2003, 23:00]
PC Expo: IMac-alike Not Thinking So Different
News But that hasn't stopped the one promotional sapphire-colored (rather than blueberry) E-Power on hand here at PC Expo from drawing all kinds of attention -- especially the legal kind from Apple. It's an almost-iMac, Future Power's E-Power.
[June 25, 1999, 11:38]
BT's Free Flights Offer Hits Turbulence
Talkback At the end of October 2004 I was told by Rise Travel I had been allocated a 7 night cruise in the Mediterrranean on SAPPHIRE of Louis Cruise Lines. Someone I know had been allocated the same thing. On 14 January he got a call saying there weren't...
[January 25, 2005, 17:55]
UK Sites Hit By SQL Worm
News The virus is also known as Sapphire, W32.SQLExp.Worm or DDOS_SQLP1434.A by various antivirus companies. Several major UK e-commerce Web sites were heavily affected by the so-called "SQL Slammer" worm that struck servers around the world over the...
[January 27, 2003, 12:09]
Cheap GPS Systems
White Papers Among those many cheap GPS systems are the Garmin eTrex eTrex, Fortuna Clip-On Bluetooth GPS, Garmin Geko 201, haicom HI-204E Serial, RoyalTek Sapphire GPS, Garmin eTrex Camo, Garmin Geko 101, Garmin Forerunner 101, and NAvman GPS 1000.
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Help & HowTo: Slammer
News The havoc wreaked by the Sapphire worm, also known as Slammer and SQLExp, could have been avoided if a patch issued by Microsoft last July was administered. As loopholes are found in products on a weekly basis, experts stressed that IT managers...
[January 27, 2003, 10:18]
Slammer: The First 'Warhol' Worm?
News Last week's Sapphire worm, widely known as SQL Slammer, infected more than 90 percent of vulnerable computers within 10 minutes, opening a new era of fast-spreading viruses on the Internet, according to a US think tank.
[February 3, 2003, 16:12]
Flawed Code Limited Zotob's Impact
Talkback Sapphire used 8.5 minutes to reach saturation. It was also a slow-moving MS worm. Not to be too tongue in cheek, but the poor design of the worm and its production flaws lend credibility to the folks out there who consider it to be an attempt by MS...
[August 20, 2005, 9:28]
SAP Making Strides With New Software
News Hasso Plattner, who last month, during SAP's Sapphire conference in Atlanta, disclosed details of the company's plans, was back at it again on Tuesday during the Software 2007 conference. Software maker SAP is making strides in the development of...
[May 9, 2007, 12:28]
Slammer 'could Have Originated From Asia'
News The Slammer worm -- also known as Sapphire and SQLExp -- exploits vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL 2000 Web servers and causes increased traffic between servers. Some security experts are pointing to the Far East as the birthplace of the worm that...
[January 27, 2003, 13:45]
SAP And Microsoft Unveil Fruits Of Collaboration
News Presenting at the business software specialist's Sapphire customer conference, Shai Agassi, a member of SAP's executive board and one of its chief technologists, offered a peek at some of the benefits the enterprise-applications firm will derive...
[May 20, 2005, 9:15]
