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When Will The Next Slammer Strike?
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."
The same MS that didn't apply their *own* patches ?!?
Hmmm...
oh, wait, that's a different effect.
Then when they leave things unpatched and it happens again, you can yell, RTFM! STFU, Newb!
If they ever catch the guy that did this, I'm sure the news will give us all the "let's throw him in the Slammer" puns we can stomach.
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.
Wow, even SARC's director thinks a worm attack is likely? If someone that unbiased thinks so, I'd better upgrade my antivirus software now!
I'm glad there's a "Post Anonymously" option--I only wish the "Post Posthumously" option were still there.
Too many lazy admins out there so people should counter the bad worms with good worms. Yep its not that ethical at all but it has got to be better than crossing your fingers.
When is the next Microsoft product being released?
alias uptime="echo '5:33pm up 22342352324 days, 6:28, 2124315623 users, load average: 2432.40, 12312.31, 123123.19'"
I am not a worm specialist, but why would it prevent exactly 911 calls, and not 910 calls or 912 calls?
This is like stating the folks at a ballgame that bought popcorn, instead of the Hotdogs everyone got food poison from were affected as well due to restroom crowding. Shesh
Help fight continental drift.
When pogs become the next big thing. Duh.
I'm just about finished writing a new worm. Only problem is it has a giant elephant bug just sitting there squashing the whole damn program. Later on this evening I'll go elephant hunting with Ak-47 and a 30 round banana clip. Prepare to die Senor Elephant Bug.
Your fellow 133t HaX0r and Slashdotter,
David
If I told you, it wouldn't be a surpise.
I am very worried that future worms might tunnel through TCP/IP networks to other attached networks that may not be running TCP/IP - for instance, if a machine with a Bluetooth interface (for instant) is compromised from the Internet side and the worm payload contains code to use other devices on the local wireless net. Even the most trivial device might have an administrative interface in future.
Imagine if you will a worm that causes toast to be burned in kitchens worldwide! It's too horrible to contemplate.
Could I interest anyone in some toast?
Wait until mid-century, when nanotech is used everywhere, and hardware viruses and worms start appearing. Let's just hope that, by then, micro$oft will have been swept into the dustbin of history and nanotech will be open source...
Cancelling a meeting decreases your productivity? Whoa.
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I don't own a Hyundai, but I see no reason to call Hyundai drivers idiots.
Once I bought a Hyundai as a winter beater.
When I got it, it had just over 12,000km on it. I drove it for 13 months and put over 40,000km on it.
And even though I paid $100 for the car, I *still* felt ripped off.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
> and should have been home all snug and cozy in their beds, sleeping the sleep of the righteous.
IMO, the righteous should be getting laid and the wicked should be getting the good night's sleep.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
You must not read /. often. Open source is aways specifically excepted from all liability on the grounds that it.. well, uh, you know, freedom of thought and all that stuff.
But seriously, you're absolutely correct that the surest way to kill the tech industry is to promote endless litigation and ambulance chasing instead of trying to build real solutions to the security problems (on all platforms) and punish the vandals.