The computer virus (worm) called SQL Slammer, which caused widespread disruption to the Internet last weekend, may have originated in Hong Kong, according to researchers trying to pin down the cause of the problems.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database software is vulnerable to the worm, which was discovered in July 2002, but did not have a major impact until now. It is thought that the worm was launched on Saturday 25th, and went on to shut down millions of computers in Hong Kong and South Korea. The worm spread across Asia, Europe and North America in just a few hours, affecting businesses and government agencies, airline travel systems and ATM support systems.
The US Federal Computer Incident Response Center, a central point for computer security issues, played a major role in co-ordinating rapid response to the outbreak, arming firewalls against it so that its spread in the rest of the world was limited.
The Hong Kong government-funded Computer Emergency Response Team is investigating the outbreak, but said it would be hard to determine the origin of the attack. S C Leung, a senior consultant with the Hong Kong computer team, said the Team's experts had not yet proved one way or the other whether the worm originated in Hong Kong.
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