Internet Broken
** Wow so much for upstreaming, this entry was created at 8:30am today. As of 6:00pm it's still not been upstreamed **
I was wondering why some servers are sluggish today. A massive DDOS attack went down as an inadvertent side-effect of an Internet worm.
The virus-like attack, which began about 12:30 a.m. EST, sought out vulnerable computers on the Internet to infect using a known flaw in popular database software from Microsoft Corp., called "SQL Server 2000." But the attacking software code was scanning for victim computers so randomly and so aggressively -- sending out thousands of probes each second -- that it overwhelmed many Internet data pipelines.
Who leaves their database ports exposed to the Internet anyway? If you do you deserved to be attacked in my book.
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