On January 25 th 2003, the Slammer worm exploited a vulnerability in SQL Server 2000, to execute a buffer overflow attack, affecting customers of Microsoft’s relational database management system.

A security researcher whose code was probably used as the basis for the recent SQL Slammer worm says that such sample code has "an important and beneficial role" in Internet security, and that he has ...

our ability to protect the Net. the heart of the Internet were affected Saturday by what experts are calling the worst worm since Code Red in 2001. A worm that attacks Microsoft's database software ...