Article Link: http://www.zdnet.com/article/sql-slammer-worm-comes-back-from-the-dead-after-a-decade-of-inactivity/
A 14 year old computer worm has suddenly made a surprise comeback following a decade of almost no activity - and nobody knows why.
After it first appeared in January 2003, SQL Slammer carried out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against tens of thousands of servers across the globe, using servers and routers to overload over 75,000 networks within 10 minutes of its emergence.