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When Will The Next Slammer Strike?

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. When Will The Next Slammer Strike? by ksheka · · Score: 5, Funny

    When is the next Microsoft product being released?

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  2. Re:If they catch the guy... by rjh · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the hell, I got karma to burn. :)

    Not just let's throw him in the Slammer. Let's throw him in Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass prison [*] with a cellmate who's affectionately known as... the Slammer.

    "So, Mr. Worm Writer, are you enjoying your cellmate's one-eyed worm?"

    [*] ... thank you, Office Space

  3. Re:Stealth worm by chromatic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cancelling a meeting decreases your productivity? Whoa.

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