After a decade of silence, this computer worm is back and researchers don't know why

[Moltuae]

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.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Wow...a blast from the past (no, I'll wait to use that pun on the old Blaster worm from that era too!)

But yeah, I remember SQL Slammer! Hard to believe it was over a decade ago...I'm feeling so old.....

 

[Mercenary Roadie]

Goes to show how old and vulnerable some systems still are out there.

 

[onetech4all]

There will always be work in Info Sec.