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Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 12:25 AM
Subject: 01/25 5:57P (DJ) =DJ Computer Worm Cripples Corporate Networks
Worldwide [This could be reason for GAP DOWN OPEN I SEE ???]
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> 01/25 5:57P (DJ) =DJ Computer Worm Cripples Corporate Networks Worldwide
> Story 0157 (MSFT, US5949181045, I/SOF, I/XGTI, I/XISL, I/XNQ1, I/XSP5...)
> By Riva Richmond
> OF DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
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> NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A computer worm spreading rapidly across the
global
> Internet Saturday infected by midday an estimated 200,000 Internet servers
> running Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) SQL software.
> First reports of the worm, dubbed "Slammer" by antivirus experts,
appeared
> at around midnight EST (0500 GMT) in the U.S.
> The worm a rogue computer program that spreads of
> its own accord is moving server to server, infecting large corporate
> networks in the U.S., Europe and Asia with incredible speed, reportedly
> even
> slowing the movement of data across the Internet itself.
> "At this point and time, it could be neck-and-neck with Code Red or a
> little
> behind it," said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of the Antivirus
Emergency
> Response Team at Network Associates Inc. (NET), referring to a devastating
> worm that infected Microsoft IIS servers in the summer of 2001.
> "Most of our reports are from Fortune 100 companies in the U.S.,"
> including
> telecommunications companies and banks, Gullotto said. "All of them are
> reporting they've been hit quite heavily."
> Slammer doesn't do anything malicious to computer networks it
penetrates.
> But its ongoing spread has, alone, wreaked havoc among corporate networks
> and
> caused some DSL and Voice-Over-IP services to shut down, according to
> Gullotto.
> The worm attacks servers using SQL software that has a particular flaw,
> for
> which Microsoft has provided a fix since July 24, 2002. Once a server is
> infected, it starts probing the Internet for other vulnerable servers
within
> just a few seconds. Gullotto predicted that all vulnerable servers
> connected
> to the Internet could become infected within 24 to 48 hours.
> Servers that have been either patched or fitted with SQL service pack 3,
> which rolls up multiple product fixes and was released by Microsoft on
Jan.
> 17, aren't vulnerable to the worm. Network Associates is urging network
> operators to take all SQL servers off-line and apply the service pack
> immediately. Microsoft officials couldn't immediately be reached for
> comment.
> That the worm hit on a weekend may have been a stroke of luck, since
> technology workers can handle the crisis while corporate network use is
> light.
> But Gullotto warned that on Monday, he doesn't think it's going to be
> "business as usual, and it's not going to go away so easily." With so many
> servers affected, it will take a considerable amount of time to update
them
> all, he said.
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> -By Riva Richmond, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5670;
> riva.richmond@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> (END) Dow Jones Newswires
> 01-25-03 1757ET
> Story 0170 =DJ Computer Worm -2: Microsoft Calling Customers To Help
> Reached later Saturday, Microsoft Director of Security Assurance Steve
> Lipner said that the company has been proactively calling customers
running
> its databased-server software all day to help them respond to the crisis.
> Microsoft is also taking calls on its security-support phone line and
> providing patch information on its web site (www.microsoft.com/security).
> "We're working with customers to insure that they are protected by
helping
> them plan or roll out the patches or recent service pack, as appropriate,"
> Lipner said, adding Microsoft provides virus-recovery support to customers
> for
> free.
>
> -By Riva Richmond, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5670;
> riva.richmond@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> (END) Dow Jones Newswires
> 01-25-03 1938ET
> Additional Codes ( I/XSTX, N/DJIN, N/DJN, N/CNW, N/DJS, N/DJSS, N/DJWB,
> N/DJWI, N/NET, N/WEI, M/NND, M/TEC, R/EU, R/NME, R/PRM, R/US, R/USW, R/WA)
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