26 January 2003

Diabhalt MS SQL worm's mayhem trail includes bank ATMs and airlines. Well, speaking of network theory: "SQL Slammer" -- that hellacious MS SQL worm that severely slowed 'Net traffic worldwide last night -- caused service outages at tens of thousands of Bank of America ATMs and wreaked havoc at Continental Airlines. Apparently, customers at most of the #3 American bank's 13,000 automatic teller machines were unable to process transactions for a period of time. BofA's system is expected to be fully online again by late today. Link to Reuters story, Link to Infoworld story, Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 10:50:11 AM

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