Inside the Slammer Worm

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July-August 2003 (vol. 1 no. 4) pp. 33-39

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	David Moore, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Colleen Shannon, Stuart Staniford, Nicholas Weaver, "Inside the Slammer Worm," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 33-39, July-August, 2003.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MSECP.2003.1219056, author = {David Moore and Vern Paxson and Stefan Savage and Colleen Shannon and Stuart Staniford and Nicholas Weaver}, title = {Inside the Slammer Worm}, journal ={IEEE Security and Privacy}, volume = {1}, number = {4}, issn = {1540-7993}, year = {2003}, pages = {33-39}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSECP.2003.1219056}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Security and Privacy TI - Inside the Slammer Worm IS - 4 SN - 1540-7993 SP33 EP39 EPD - 33-39 A1 - David Moore, A1 - Vern Paxson, A1 - Stefan Savage, A1 - Colleen Shannon, A1 - Stuart Staniford, A1 - Nicholas Weaver, PY - 2003 KW - Slammer KW - Sapphire KW - worm KW - infect KW - attack VL - 1 JA - IEEE Security and Privacy ER -

David Moore, Cooperative Association Internet Data Analysis and University of California, San Diego

Vern Paxson, International Computer Science Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego

Colleen Shannon, Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis

Stuart Staniford, Silicon Defense

Nicholas Weaver, Silicon Defense and University of California, Berkeley

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?

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Slammer, Sapphire, worm, infect, attack

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David Moore, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Colleen Shannon, Stuart Staniford, Nicholas Weaver, "Inside the Slammer Worm," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 33-39, July 2003, doi:10.1109/MSECP.2003.1219056

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