Some say Hong Kong; others are pointing to Korea. 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 ...

It has been said that we’re all but food for the worms. In the rush to create a worldwide network, we have once again rendered ourselves food for worms, albeit an entirely different kind of worm, in a ...

Several federal agencies were able to stave off a fast-moving Internet worm that wreaked havoc on networks worldwide over the weekend. Known as the SQL Slammer, the worm caused high central processing ...

Microsoft's policy of relying on software patches to fix major security flaws was questioned Monday after a series of internal e-mails revealed that the software giant's own network wasn't immune from ...

Update 26 Jan 2003: Microsoft SQL Server has been hit by a new worm, called SQL Slammer, that has wreaked havoc across the Internet. Full story. A known vulnerability in Microsoft SQL server systems ...

If you were surfing the 'net yesterday, you might've noticed having trouble reaching some sites. If you work in IT, you might have gotten a phone call yesterday morning to come in and start putting ...

A security researcher whose code was probably used as the basis for the recent SQL Slammer worm says that such sample code has "an important and beneficial role" in Internet security, and that he has ...