SQL Slammer 16 years later: Four modern-day scenarios that could be worse

Its been 16 years since the SQL Slammer worm struck on January 25, 2003. It was the fastest spreading computer worm in history, and surprisingly nothing has beaten it since. The worm spread to tens of thousands of computers in the first hour and infected most of the unpatched servers on the internet. Since then, nothing has been beaten by the fast-spreading computer worm, says John Defterios. He says the worm taught us that critical vulnerability patches had to be applied as quickly as possible.”]

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