A study has found that the Slammer worm hit almost all of its victims within 10 minutes, setting a new milestone in malware evolution. This rapidity puts Slammer into the realm of what is known as a Warhol worm, or one that could infect the entire...
The worm, SQL Slammer, infected 200,000 computers running Microsoft's SQL Server software that hadn't had a six-month-old patch applied. Slammer started spreading late on a Friday night PST. The worm is thought to have spread to 90 per cent of all...
SecurityFocus have published workaround information that can be used to mitigate the bug until more information comes to hand. The latest glitch is in Window's DCOM code - the same component of Windows targeted by the Blaster and Nachi worms in...
The very efficient Microsoft SQL Slammer worm, for example, accounted for more than a quarter of total attacks detected, with only 2.4 per cent of attacking computers. The number of public alerts about software security flaws leveled off over the...
Compared with the Microsoft SQL Slammer worm, which infected 70,000 to 100,000 computers, the Witty worm attacked a smaller population, according to CAIDA. Within 10 seconds, 110 compromised hosts appeared, which led CAIDA to believe that those...
Speedy propagation is a serious danger to networks and servers; the SQL Slammer attack hit 79,000 systems within 31 minutes, he said. Today, the type of viruses and worms we see are spreading at computational speed - a speed that a human can't deal...
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