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Title	Yesterday's SQL worms, today's problem
Type	Opinion
Source	ITworld 02/25/2008
Summary	For the last few weeks I have been watching old versions of SQL attacks, worms and probes continue to circulate around the Internet. According to popular sources like ATLAS, these SQL worms represent nearly 70% of all malicious traffic on the Internet today. 70% is a large number, especially for vulnerabilities that date back to 2002. continue

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