web outage?

[Ken Moffat]

Anyone notice this? I got this message from my isp....

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Last night, Friday, January 25, 2003, the Internet experienced a massive, worldwide Denial of Service attack. The attack was caused by a new computer 'worm' known as Sapphire which exploited a known vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL database server program. It is believed the worm originated in Asia or Europe, but its effects were felt around the globe.

The Drizzle network was neither a specific target nor source of this attack. However, due to the extraordinary intensity and pervasiveness of it, our connectivity to the Internet backbone was severely impacted while our network administrators worked feverishly to reroute whatever traffic we could. By midnight, access was restored as much as possible.

As of this writing on Saturday morning, the Internet is recovering, but there are still pockets of networks where servers are unreachable. We anticipate conditions will improve steadily as network administrators around the world isolate and repair their affected servers. But in the short term, users should expect delays or an inability to reach some sites over the next several hours, possibly days.

Unless you are running Microsoft's SQL server, you need not take any specific action in response to this attack. (Note: this attack only affected the Microsoft SQL server, not other SQL servers such as MySQL.)
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Ken Moffat
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