When Will The Next Slammer Strike?

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 2, 2003 @07:19AM from the not-to-pick-on-anyone dept.

scubacuda writes "Business Week has an article on how the Slammer worm demonstrates just 'how vulnerable the Internet remains': MS's own DBs were affected, telephone/ATM/etc were knocked out, and if the worm had occurred only 48 hours later (preventing investor's trading, 911 calls, banking services), there could have been a 'virtual Net shutdown.' Vincent Weafer, director of the computer-security outfit Symantec's Anti-Virus Response Center (SARC), says that the likelihood that a Slammer-style worm will hit at a more vulnerable moment is high."

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Re:This is nothing yet by Bishop · 2003-02-02 08:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Privilege escalation under Windows is trivial due to a Win32 design flaw.
Re:MS's own DBs were affected by Bruce+Losis · 2003-02-02 13:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Maybe MS weren't prepared to agree to the EULA?

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