CRIME SQLSlammer Worm

From: Andrew Plato (aplato@private)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 19:05:34 PST

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    Anybody else notice the interesting little war going on with this
    worm. I believe ISS was the first to report the worm and they named
    it SQL Slammer. 
    
    But then other companies jumped on it and gave in their own name. 
    
    So now the worm has like 12 different names. ISS calles it SQL
    Slammer, eEye and F-Secure call it Sapphire, Symantec calls it
    SQLexp, and Kaspersky labes calls it Helkern, and Trend Micro has the
    most elegant name SQLP1434.A (which sounds more like an asteroid then
    a worm). 
    
    I kind of liked Slammer - seeing as how it did slam the Internet
    pretty hard. Sapphire sounds like a porn star and Helkern sounds like
    a German beer. 
    
    Seems kinda petty to me, but when have security firms been above
    pettiness? 
    
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