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Saturday, February 08, 2003
'Slammer' attacks may become way of life for Net - Robert Lemos, CNET News.com
Siebel Systems thought it had dodged the bullet. After a round-the-clock weekend watch for any infection of the so-called SQL Slammer worm--also known as Sapphire and SQL Hell--that hammered other companies' networks, the software maker apparently had escaped with only minor incidents in its international offices. The SQL Slammer worm took a toll on networks in several large companies and municipalities, starting early on a recent Saturday. But the quiet wouldn't last. More than three days after the worm started spreading on the evening of Jan. 24, Slammer somehow got into Siebel's internal network and sent traffic skyrocketing... The disturbing lesson: Regardless of what protective measures have been taken, no network can be considered secure. Companies deemed bastions of security--such giants as Bank of America, American Express and Microsoft, under its year-old Trustworthy Computing initiative--found their internal networks deluged with data from the Slammer attack.
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