[Fwd: Update on "Slammer" Worm]

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Author: George Toft
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Subject: [Fwd: Update on "Slammer" Worm]
Derek Neighbors wrote:
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> previously been made available, and (b) there was no data corruption on
> customers' systems. The release of this worm is a criminal act, and we


So riddle me this: What if the next slammer (call it the Grand Slam),
were to spread using the same mechanism, and use the "feature" of no
password on the admin port to run a "drop table" command followed by a
"drop database" followed by a "commit"???

Scary.

George