Security experts are hunting for clues that might finger the person who wrote the SQL Slammer worm that hammered the Internet this past weekend. Yet chances are, the attacker will escape, investigators said.
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SQL Slammer, also known as the Sapphire worm, has highlighted a dirty secret in the IT industry: Software bugs are common and administrators are slow to patch them.
Microsoft has released early versions of database security applications in reaction to the Slammer worm that wreaked havoc on the Internet last week.
System administrators' role in protecting Australian enterprises against vulnerabilities has come to the fore with the outbreak of the recent SQL Slammer worm.
Cash machines, Internet connections and the servers that sit at the heart of the Internet have been affected by what experts are calling the worst worm since Code Red in 2001.
Security researcher David Litchfield's 'proof of concept' code was probably used to build SQL Slammer, but that will not stop him publishing
Macquarie has admitted that a variant of the Slammer worm was responsible for a serious disruption to the company's co-location customers last week.
Microsoft products may not be alone in contributing to the spread of the SQL Slammer worm, security researchers said on Wednesday.
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