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• Setbacks in search for worm author

  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.

• How to save the world from worms

  SQL Slammer shows that network security needs more than patches. As is often the case with security issues, the answer lies outside IT.

• The hacker challenge

  Security systems continue to get more sophisticated--and so do the hackers who are seeking to break through them. How can you best combine your defences to protect your company networks?

• Security wake-up call

  The recent worm attack on SQL Server should be a warning to all CIOs focused on Web services security. Here are five tasks CIOs and their staff need to do to better secure the enterprise.

• Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft bugs

  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 releases anti-Slammer tools

  Microsoft has released early versions of database security applications in reaction to the Slammer worm that wreaked havoc on the Internet last week.

• IT pros protect against Slammer

  System administrators' role in protecting Australian enterprises against vulnerabilities has come to the fore with the outbreak of the recent SQL Slammer worm.

• Computer worm slows global Net traffic

  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.

• Researcher denies Slammer worm accountability

  Security researcher David Litchfield's 'proof of concept' code was probably used to build SQL Slammer, but that will not stop him publishing

• Slammer worm responsible for Macquarie outage

  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.

• Slammer may not feed on Microsoft alone

  Microsoft products may not be alone in contributing to the spread of the SQL Slammer worm, security researchers said on Wednesday.

• Cleaning up after Slammer

  The Slammer worm is causing problems around the world - find out how to avoid it, and what to do if infected.

• Damage control: What we learnt from 'Slammer'

  Forget ironclad shields against Slammer-style attacks. Companies need to cut back on the heroics and focus on limiting their pain.

• Aust organisation prompts security patch reversal

  Education software developer Blackboard has moved to avert a customer relations nightmare, reversing its stance that companies who apply patches to the existing Windows 2000 server platform faced having their support contracts invalidated.

• Decoding the lessons of Slammer

  Mike Nash, vice president of Microsoft's security business unit, takes stock of the software maker's war on worms and viruses.

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