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Lessons From the Slammer
Richard Forno, 2003-02-05

January's Slammer infection held valuable lessons for all security stakeholders.

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Lesson Number Four 2003-02-08
Nicholas Weaver
Human response can NOT stop Internet worms. Sapphire spread worldwide in 10 minutes, and we did not see people stopping it for 3 hours.

As for firewalls, it probably is that many firewalls are misconfigured when it comes to UDP, and a lot of others have the attitude of "That which is not explici...

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