Sometimes the board has seemed a bit slow, but I thought it may be our connection, as many sites have been slower than they should be lately.
And I think the whole board was just moving rather slowly, at least for me.
Excerpt from this week's issue (February 3rd) of eWEEK:
"In the 'ouch, that's gotta hurt' category is the recent rampage of the SQL Slammer worm. The worm spread rapidly across the globe targeting SQL servers, slowing Internet traffic, tripping up some ATM networks and blacking out big chunks of Internet access in countries such as technology-savvy South Korea. Of course, all this happened within days of Bill Gates' memo outlining the 'significant progress' Microsoft has made in its security initiatives. What's to learn from this latest attack? Hackers are speeding through the learning curve. Relying on patches to secure computer sites is a patchwork approach in itself. For the full story, see our news package (Page 1) on the Slammer attack and the response from the IT community."
Anyone who might like to read the article referred to can read it online
here. You'll also find links to several others articles about the Slammer worm there, including the one this article refers to as being on Page 12: "Laborious Updates Leave SQL Databases Unpatched," which, IMO anyway, shows one of the major flaws in the way Microsoft does business.
