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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."

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  1. It will happen 2003-08-25 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The ultimate worm WILL be released, and it WILL KILL the internet.

  2. Re:Government Funding of Security/Virus Prevention by Soul-Burn666 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sorry for stating the obvious:
    Linux is free.

    Moreover, in a place like a college, it's pretty obvious the defence should come from the institute's firewall.

    --
    ^_^
  3. Re:Government Funding of Security/Virus Prevention by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    communist

  4. Phust po$$t. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have two(2) penises and three(3) balls.
    so help me.

  5. Speculations - Shuttle wreck and slammer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Some people are speculating that Columbia wreck was cause by the new slammer worm that affected the shuttle backend systems. Slammer worm took unpatched systems by surprise the week before descent of shuttle...

    but I think it is not true..

  6. Traduction en anglais by BigBlockMopar · · Score: 0, Troll

    In closing, abstenez-vous s'il vous plaît à avoir des relations sexuelles anormales avec mon petit chat brun.

    "In closing, please refrain from having abnormal sexual relations with my small brown (tom) cat."

    Au lieu de cela, placez votre pénis dans ma râpe de fromage.

    "Instead, place your penis in my cheese grater."

    --
    Fire and Meat. Yummy.
  7. Re:Government Funding of Security/Virus Prevention by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There are also no known debian users that are cool.