If you were surfing the 'net yesterday, you might've noticed having trouble reaching some sites. If you work in IT, you might have gotten a phone call yesterday morning to come in and start putting ...

On January 25 th 2003, the Slammer worm exploited a vulnerability in SQL Server 2000, to execute a buffer overflow attack, affecting customers of Microsoft’s relational database management system.

Microsoft products may not be alone in contributing to the spread of the SQL Slammer worm, security researchers said Wednesday. Other companies also make products containing the Microsoft database ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. It appears that the alarming rate with which the SQL Slammer Worm moved over the globe now "[makes] ...

It has been said that we’re all but food for the worms. In the rush to create a worldwide network, we have once again rendered ourselves food for worms, albeit an entirely different kind of worm, in a ...

Microsoft's policy of relying on software patches to fix major security flaws was questioned Monday after a series of internal e-mails revealed that the software giant's own network wasn't immune from ...

The SQL Slammer worm, also called Sapphire, targeted a known flaw in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and clogged Net traffic as it searched for vulnerable systems. The vendor released a patch for the flaw ...

BOSTON — Still patching your SQL Server databases? Well, be sure not to miss the post-Slammer sale! The new W32.Slammer worm, a nuisance for network administrators worldwide, has turned into a ...

Shavlik Technologies, St. Paul, Minn., last week released the first major upgrade to its Microsoft patch management product, HFNetChkPro, while BigFix, Emeryville, Calif., recently rolled out a tool ...

Our intrusion-detection system consists mostly of PCs that act as network sensors by running Snort open-source software. The IDS worked very well in giving us an early warning of an impending SQL ...

A security researcher whose code was probably used as the basis for the recent SQL Slammer worm says that such sample code has "an important and beneficial role" in Internet security, and that he has ...

Check Point next month is set to give its firewall customers the ability to detect and block application-layer attacks such as Code Red, Nimda and SQL slammer worms. REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. – Check Point ...