It’s a worm

Gee you know it’s pretty serious business when a worm shows as the headline on the Drudge Report, eh?

For the record, after reading through the SlashDot synopsis and following the various links it appears to be a worm using an old MS SQL vulnerability that Microsoft released a patch for back in June and some sites, obviously, didn’t get the patch applied. Tsk, tsk…

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