Inside the Slammer Worm

  • Authors:
  • David Moore;Vern Paxson;Stefan Savage;Colleen Shannon;Stuart Staniford;Nicholas Weaver

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The Slammer worm, also sometimes known as Sapphire, was the fastest worm in history, achieving a peak scanning rate of 55 million scans per second. This time, this new worm breed had internal programming flaws and a benign payload, but what about next time?