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https://www.caida.org/catalog/papers/2003_sapphire/ https://www.caida.org/catalog/papers/2003_sapphire/ [SQL] Slammer spread incredibly quickly, even though th
by nullindividual 2y ago
https://www.caida.org/catalog/papers/2003_sapphire/ https://www.caida.org/catalog/papers/2003_sapphire/
[SQL] Slammer spread incredibly quickly, even though the vulnerability was patched in the prior year.
> As it began spreading throughout the Internet, it doubled in size every 8.5 seconds. It infected more than 90 percent of vulnerable hosts within 10 minutes.
Worms are not technically viruses, but they can have similar impacts/perform similar tasks on an infected host.
- smartpeoplebelw 2y agoYou are off by several orders of magnitude Also keep in mind 8.5 million is likely the count of machines fully impacted and are not counting the machines impacted but were able to be automatically recovered.
- nullindividual 2y ago> You are off by several orders of magnitude Can you cite something? This is HN, not reddit. > Also keep in mind 8.5 million is likely the count of machines fully impacted and are not counting the machines impacted but were able to be automatically recovered. Do you have evidence of this? Please bring sources with you.
- canureadno 2y ago[flagged]