January 25 marked the 10-year anniversary of the SQL Slammer worm.

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It is only a matter of time before David Litchfield is blamed for the SQL Slammer worm, because he figured out how it could be done and told the world.

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Even at Microsoft, not everyone applied the patch that would have fixed a known flaw exploited by the so-called SQL Slammer worm, which is estimated to have disrupted half of all internet traffic in January.

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In January 2003 the Microsoft SQL Server worm, known as Slammer, infected a private computer network at David-Besse nuclear power plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, disabling a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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