Slapper worm takes on new forms
News The Slapper worm, which draws infected machines into a network that can be used to attack other computers, has mutated into two new forms, and is proving surprisingly difficult to kill off, according to antivirus companies.
[September 25, 2002, 14:58]
Slapper worm grinds to a halt
News Known as Linux.Slapper.Worm, Slapper and Apache/mod_ssl, the worm's spread has fallen far short of the biggest attackers in recent times. However, because the network created by the Slapper worm doesn't use encryption, anyone can tap into it.
[September 20, 2002, 13:32]
Slapper worm continues to put it about
News The Linux Slapper worm had compromised more than 6,700 servers as of early Monday morning, and it continues to create a peer-to-peer attack network that could shut down even corporate Internet connections.
[September 17, 2002, 12:39]
Virus writers get Slapper happy
News Internet vandals have continued to modify the recent Slapper worm and have sent at least four new variants of the hostile Linux program into the electronic wilds. The newest variant, dubbed "Mighty," exploits the same Linux Web server flaw that...
[October 7, 2002, 7:44]
The Year Ahead: The future of viruses
News The Linux-based Slapper worm included an innovation that is likely to reappear in a more dangerous form in the future: it establishes a peer-to-peer network among affected servers, enabling a hacker to take over the servers and use them to attack...
[December 31, 2002, 6:33]
Millions vulnerable to Microsoft Web flaw
News Recent research has shown that, in the case of the Linux Slapper worm, only about 40 percent of administrators patched their systems in the 7 weeks before the Slapper worm was released into the Internet.
[November 21, 2002, 7:53]
Linux worm creating P2P attack network
News The advisory includes an analysis of the so-called Linux.Slapper.Worm's code, revealing some details of the attack network created from servers compromised by the worm. Slapper) also includes a number of peer-to-peer capabilities, which allow it to...
[September 16, 2002, 8:09]
Govt finds open-source flaws
News A year ago, the Slapper worm infected Linux computers that hadn't been patched to fix a different hole in the same software. The third flaw could result in a security hole that could allow online vandals to attack a server or enable a worm to spread.
[October 2, 2003, 8:35]
Seven simple ways to stop security scares
News The Slapper worm is causing problems on Apache servers, dispelling the fug of invulnerability open source has with some people, and after five months in the wild the Klez email attack is still hale and healthy.
[September 26, 2002, 13:14]
Why did MSBlast fail to take down Microsoft?
News I still see a great deal of older worm signatures hanging out on the Internet, including SQL Slapper and Nimda. As an added bonus, it removed DNS for this entirely so the MSBlast worm wouldn't issue requests and clog up Internet traffic.
[August 28, 2003, 13:30]
Attacks increase on Apache servers
News The latest Apache Foundation warning posted on BugTraq cautions that the mod_ssl slapper worm is still being used successfully to attack Apache servers. I report on a lot of software vulnerabilities here, and I try to weed out the unimportant ones.
[December 11, 2002, 10:59]
F-Secure gives Linux an antivirus injection
News The best known Linux virus was called Slapper, which two years ago infected vulnerable versions of the Apache Web server running on Linux and made them launch DDoS attacks. Experts estimate that at the time, there were around 4,000 computers...
[March 25, 2004, 15:50]
Virus writers exchange coded insults
News Mydoom.G, which was released on the same day, also contained a message to Netsky's author: "to netsky's creator(s): imho, skynet is a decentralized peer-to-peer neural network.we have seen P2P in Slapper in Sinit only.they may be called skynets...
[March 3, 2004, 12:30]
OpenSSL shuts attack holes
News A flaw in the Web server component based of OpenSSL was responsible for allowing the Linux Slapper worm to spread in September 2002. The group behind OpenSSL, a widely used open-source Web security program, released two patches for security flaws...
[March 18, 2004, 7:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's not without its problems, but offhand I can only think of four actual worms (Ramen, Slapper, Mighty and Scalper) that have caused any problems in the past five years. No, it's a good old fashioned worm, flashing across the Internet through...
[August 19, 2005, 18:45]
