10 Years After SQL Slammer

Trailrunner7 writes "Ten years ago today, on Jan. 25, 2003, a new worm took the Internet by storm, infecting thousands of servers running Microsoft's SQL Server software every minute. The worm, which became known as SQL Slammer, eventually became the fastest-spreading worm ever and helped change the way Microsoft approached security and reshaped the way many researchers handled advisories and exploit code. This is the inside story of SQL Slammer, told by David Litchfield, the researcher who found the bug and wrote the exploit code that was later taken by Slammer's authors and used as part of the worm."

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Also decided in favor of restrictive firewalls

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

Kind of hard to believe that ten years ago it was quite common for people to still have their SQL Servers hooked up the Internet with no firewall or firewall rules that permitted direct connections to the control port. Good luck finding that configuration today...

HTTP Slammer

[rastakid]

Slashdot does it again.