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 ...

A Linux worm that started spreading a week ago has reached a plateau after infecting about 7,000 servers and turning the hosts into a peer-to-peer network that could be used to attack other computers.

A Linux worm that started spreading a week ago has reached a plateau after infecting about 7,000 servers and turning the hosts into a peer-to-peer network that could be used to attack other computers.

The Slapper worm identified late last week is slowly but surely infecting thousands of vulnerable Linux Apache Web servers across the Internet, according to security firms monitoring its progress.

Slapper (Linux.Slapper.a) is a worm that attacks Linux servers running Apache with mod_ssl and uses a known vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) handshake process. According to F-Secure, an ...