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  • New worm burrows into Aust systems

    The Slammer worm wreaked havoc on Australian networks over the long weekend as it raged through the Internet.

  • Counting the cost of Slammer

    Analyst firms have begun to weigh in with initial estimates of the damage done by the SQL Slammer worm, the virulent program that spread quickly throughout the Internet a week ago.

  • Viruses to hit infrastructure: researcher

    A prominent anti-virus researcher is predicting an increase in attacks on Internet infrastructure similar in nature to last years assault on the Internet's top level domain name servers and the recent SQL Slammer worm.

  • MySQL worm halted

    A worm exploiting weak database passwords on Windows computers had essentially stopped spreading on Friday, after the systems infected with the program were cut off from the control of several central computers.

  • UPDATE: New worm poised to unleash hell on MS

    A worm that takes advantage of what some security experts describe as the most widespread Windows flaw ever has started spreading, while new analysis has uncovered a time bomb in the worm's code poised to unleash a furious denial of service attack at Microsoft itself.

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  • UPDATE: New worm poised to unleash hell on MS

    A worm that takes advantage of what some security experts describe as the most widespread Windows flaw ever has started spreading, while new analysis has uncovered a time bomb in the worm's code poised to unleash a furious denial of service attack at Microsoft itself.

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