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Saturday, January 25, 2003

MS SQL Worm Hammering the Net -- 12:54 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

A new worm is exploiting a flaw in Microsoft SQL to basically create a massive DDOS on the Internet. You can get the details on Slashdot. UUNet is being slammed particularly hard. The dumb thing is that Microsoft issued a patch for this last summer. Here's the original writeup on the exploit.

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