The Slammer Worm, 23 Years Later — What That Day Taught Me About Speed
January 25, 2003. A Saturday. I was at my desk—because in cybersecurity, Saturdays are just Thursdays with better coffee. I’d been in the industry for about a decade at that point, running network operations. We’d seen worms before. Code Red. Nimda. The usual chaos. Nothing—and I mean nothing—prepared us for SQL Slammer. At 05:30 UTC,