Traffic on the many parts of the Internet slowed dramatically for several hours early Saturday (Jan. 25), the apparent effects of a fast-spreading, virus-like infection that overwhelmed the world’s digital pipelines and interfered with Web browsing and delivery of e-mail and other services.
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, 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.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/25/internet.attack.ap/index.html
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Flash/AL20030125.html
The situation was brought under control at approximately 7a.m. EST. Though the Internet is still experiencing severe amounts of degradation, things have greatly improved.
The datacenter has had all routers adjusted to block this type of worm, and all firewalls on all servers have been configured to deal with this problem. Since LexiConn runs only Linux machines, our servers are NOT vulnerable to any infection by this large worm.
- LexiConn Support
