The so-called “Slapper” worm that is infecting Web servers worldwide is milestone in the evolution of computer worms, experts say: the creation of a peer-to-peer network by a worm for the purpose of ...
As of Monday morning, security vendor Symantec said there were 6,700 servers compromised by the worm, which surfaced Friday, known as Linux.Slapper.Worm or Apache/mod_ssl. "It's spreading," said Al ...