Cash machines froze. Airlines and hospitals dusted off paper forms to schedule reservations and track patients. This was the scene on Jan. 25, 2003, shortly after the Slammer worm appeared and quickly ...

Saturday’s Slammer worm was based on sample code published to help explain the threat posed by the security vulnerability that Slammer exploited, according to David Litchfield, the security expert who ...

The Slammer worm doesn't do any damage to computers, and it doesn't directly affect home and most business personal computers. But it spreads quickly enough and is ferocious enough that, earlier this ...

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 ...

Effects of the "slammer" worm were felt in Western New York. Four or five machines at the University at Buffalo were infected, out of dozens that were potentially vulnerable to the attack, said ...