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The week in review: Slammer dunks the Internet
News SQL Slammer worm wreaks havoc on Internet The IT world found out this week when the SQL Slammer worm slowed Web sites and corporate networks to a crawl. Microsoft fails Slammer's security test Microsoft itself admitted it had fallen prey to Slammer.
[January 31, 2003, 15:40]
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]
Slammer may not feed on Microsoft alone
News Microsoft products may not be alone in contributing to the spread of the SQL Slammer worm, security researchers said on Wednesday. Microsoft said that only SQL Server 2000 and MSDE 2000 -- including the retail, service pack 1 and service pack 2...
[January 30, 2003, 7:49]
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. Slammer causes increased traffic on UDP port 1434 and spreads via an exploit in Microsoft...
[January 27, 2003, 10:18]
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. Slammer's spread over the weekend was the largest such incident since the Code Red and...
[January 27, 2003, 13:45]
Slammer worm claims victim Down Under
News Macquarie Telecom has admitted that a variant of the Slammer worm was responsible for a serious disruption to its co-location customers last week. Engineers eventually discovered that the traffic was being generated by some of its customers that...
[January 17, 2005, 8:50]
Counting the cost of Slammer
News Analyst firms have begun to weigh in with initial estimates of the damage done by the SQL Slammer worm, the virulent program that spread quickly throughout the Internet a week ago. For all the hype of Slammer, it is not as dire as many people think...
[February 3, 2003, 7:54]
Microsoft warns of Slammer morphs
News Microsoft suffered, along with users, in this week's Slammer virus outbreak this week because it has a loose desktop security policy, admitted a Microsoft security officer. He also warned that Slammer variants could attack in future.
[January 31, 2003, 14:18]
SQL Slammer worm wreaks havoc on Internet
News SQL Slammer's code instructs the Microsoft SQL Server to go into an endless loop, continually sending out data to other computers, in effect performing a denial of service attack, F-Secure said, comparing the slowdown to the impact of the Code Red...
[January 26, 2003, 9:58]
Flaw harbours Slammer potential
News A research company warned on Tuesday that an attacker could use a recently patched Microsoft flaw to create a fast-moving worm similar to SQL Slammer, which spread rapidly across the Internet a year ago.
[December 10, 2003, 7:30]
Ex-virus writer questioned over Slammer
News Police are questioning Benny, a former member of the 29A virus writers' club, over the Internet worm Slammer. No link has ever been proved between Benny and Slammer, which temporarily crippled the Internet in January 2003.
[November 29, 2004, 13:35]
SAFE: SQL Slammer Worm Attack Mitigation
White Papers This white paper discusses the recently released SQL Slammer worms and their effects on the network and its hosts. And looks at the numerous technologies are available that mitigate the detrimental effects of the worm.
[December 1, 2004, 10:54]
Korean group plans Slammer lawsuit
News A South Korean rights group may take Microsoft to task for the carnage caused by the Slammer worm last month. Slammer, also known as the Sapphire worm and SQLExp, exploits vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL 2000 Web servers and causes increased...
[February 6, 2003, 14:14]
Microsoft releases anti-Slammer tools
News Microsoft has released early versions of database security applications in reaction to the Slammer worm that wreaked havoc on the Internet last week. The software tools, posted on Microsoft's Web site, give systems administrators a way to check the...
[February 6, 2003, 15:02]
Could Symantec have saved you from Slammer?
News The bulk of the Slammer attack was over in a very short time. The Slammer attack There have been loud complaints that Symantec, as part of its DeepSight service, knew about the recent Slammer attack early (which it subsequently bragged about in a...
[March 3, 2003, 11:03]
Microsoft fails Slammer's security test
News In the case of SQL Slammer, it seemed that Microsoft had done it right. For more information on the worm, see Help & HowTo: Slammer) The messages, seen by CNET News.com, portray a company struggling with a massive infection by the SQL Slammer worm...
[January 28, 2003, 8:39]
Slammer worm claims victim Down Under
Talkback So, how much is the estimated COST of this problem? I'm just wondering if things like this ever get added to the TCO Microsoft is always touting as being so low for Windows. In this case, it could even be that having a windows machine just simply...
[January 19, 2005, 17:00]
Sapphire/Slammer worm attacks
News According to MessageLabs.com, a UK-based mail service, "[Slammer] can only spread as an in-memory process on unpatched Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and the Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE). Known by various names, including W32.SQLExp.Worm...
[January 28, 2003, 9:42]
Could Symantec have saved you from Slammer?
Talkback Symantec is only interested in Symantec and in defrauding its customers! There is no easy way of contacting Symantec and this leads one th think that they do not want customer contact. Their, supposed, customer service is out sourced to India and...
[October 3, 2004, 21:09]
US hacker gets five years in the slammer
Talkback These were not just any PC, but specifically *Miccrosoft Windows* PCs. Obviously people have come to associate MS Windows with seive-like security. And it goes without saying that botnets are exclusive to MS-WIndows, but surely, it should not be...
[May 10, 2006, 6:35]
