Topic '10 Years After SQL Slammer' in forum 'Security' - dslreports.com

Re: 10 Years After SQL Slammer

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:52:04 EDT

siljaline posted : See also:
• »it.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/1···-slammer
• »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slammer_%2···_worm%29

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Re: 10 Years After SQL Slammer

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:38:36 EDT

Woody79_00 posted : Agreed Link Logger. I remember that day well, my firewalls at work (my old job) got hammered by that thing. That was the day I was thankful for having a good backup plan in place. :)

Re: 10 Years After SQL Slammer

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:54:07 EDT

Link Logger posted : What time UTC did this thread get started at?

»New Worm - UDP 1434 - SQL Server Monitor??

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Re: 10 Years After SQL Slammer

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:41:41 EDT

StuartMW posted : Slammer was a wannabe :)

I remember the Stoned virus. There's even a thread about it although it'd been around long (about 10 years) before that.

Link Logger which is a traffic analysis and firewall logging tool

Re: 10 Years After SQL Slammer

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:34:52 EDT

antdude posted :

said by psloss:

Looks like the old thread is still available, too:
»New Worm - UDP 1434 - SQL Server Monitor??

Wow, you can still reply too!

Re: 10 Years After SQL Slammer

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:19:44 EDT

psloss posted : Looks like the old thread is still available, too:
»New Worm - UDP 1434 - SQL Server Monitor??

10 Years After SQL Slammer

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:58:27 EDT

Stem Bolt posted : »threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/insid···r-102010

quote:
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.