Oscar Trelles

The Internet under attack.

I don’t pretend to be an alarmist, but this is really big. In the last hours a massive attack (started last night) has been slowing down the overall performance of major Internet Backbones (including UUNET), and even shutting down several web servers. The information I have indicates this attack is taking advantage of vulnerabilities in (un-patched) installations of the Microsoft SQL Server: the worm breaks in and tries to spread, generating lots of network traffic. Depending on your location, some websites can be too slow or completely innaccesible. More information:
CNN, Warp2Search.