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."

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Re:Of more interest...

[La Temperanza]

When Slashdot links to its own articles, does it get slashdotted?

IN COMMUMIST CHINA

[isorox]

The Next Striker Slams You!

Re:MS's own DBs were affected

[Anonymous Coward]

Mobster : The same Homer Simpson that drove through the wall of our nightclub?
Homer : Uh, I mean, my real name is Barney Grumble.
Mobster : The same Barney Grumble that keeps taking pictures of my sister?
Homer : Uh, actually, I'm, think Krusty think, Joe Vallachi!
Mobster : The same Joe Vallachi who squealed to the Senate Committee on organized crime?
Homer : Benedict Arnold!
Mobster : The same Benedict Arnold who planned to surrender West Point to the British?
Homer : D'OH!

Slammer will strike

[tq_at_sju]

Slammer is gonna strike at the next NBA All Star Game which is coming up this weekend, watch out Michaelangelo here comes Desmond Mason!