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SQL Slammer[ a] is a 2003 computer worm that caused a denial of service on some Internet hosts and dramatically slowed general Internet traffic. It also crashed routers around the world, causing even more slowdowns. It spread rapidly, infecting most of its 75,000 victims within 10 minutes. The program exploited a buffer overflow bug in ...
January 24: The SQL Slammer worm, aka Sapphire worm, Helkern and other names, attacks vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL Server and MSDE becomes the fastest spreading worm of all time (measured by doubling time at the peak rate of growth), [30] causing massive Internet access disruptions worldwide just fifteen minutes after infecting its first ...
David Litchfield. David Litchfield (born 1975) is a British security expert and The Director of Information Security Assurance for Apple. Anne Saita, writing for Information Security magazine, called him along with his brother Mark Litchfield, "World's Best Bug Hunters" in December 2003. [1]
Blaster (also known as Lovsan, Lovesan, or MSBlast) was a computer worm that spread on computers running operating systems Windows XP and Windows 2000 during August 2003. [ 1] The worm was first noticed and started spreading on August 11, 2003. The rate that it spread increased until the number of infections peaked on August 13, 2003.
Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first detected in November 2008. [2] It uses flaws in Windows OS software (MS08-067 / CVE-2008-4250) [3] [4] and dictionary attacks on administrator passwords to propagate while forming a botnet, and has been unusually difficult to counter because of its combined use ...
The worm's creator, Robert Tappan Morris, is the son of cryptographer Robert Morris, who worked at the NSA. [2] A friend of Morris said that he created the worm simply to see if it could be done, [3] and released it from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the hope of suggesting that its creator studied there, instead of Cornell. [4]
Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm ( XSS worm) that was designed to propagate across the social networking site MySpace by Samy Kamkar. Within just 20 hours [ 1] of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload [ 2] making Samy the fastest-spreading virus of all time. [ 3]
On “Fresh Out the Slammer,” Swift seemingly details how she reconnected with Healy, 35, after splitting from Alwyn, 33. “Now, pretty baby / I’m runnin’ back home to you,” she sings.