I found this report on the way Slammer works. It explains that Slammer is a kind of worm which hasn't really been seen in the wild before. It gives details on why the worm could disrupt operations on networks which had no instances of SQL Server 2000 running.
http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/sapphire/ By the way I haven't heard of the people who wrote this document before, does anybody know if they are competent? I ask because security is a business with no room for amateurs, and it is a business that has alot of amateurs in it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Grover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:58 PM Subject: RE: (clug-talk) vintage os rocks big time :-) > Air Traffic Control would require real time data, and possibly store > information for historical purposes. I doubt a failure in MSSQL would cause > any real grief to ATC. After all, if the system failed on storing data, > wouldn't it still need to deal with the real time data? > > My thoughts. > > Shawn >
