, SecurityFocus 2003-08-14
The Blaster worm has infected hundreds of thousands of Windows machines, shut down the Maryland state DMV, put network administrators on overtime, crashed countless consumer's home computers, and on Saturday it will attempt a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft's Windows Update site. But that doesn't make it all bad.
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The Bright Side of Blaster
2003-08-15
mark (at) challender (dot) com [email concealed] (3 replies)
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hackers HATE worms
2003-08-15
a worm author (1 replies)
a worm author (1 replies)
hackers HATE worms
2003-08-16
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
hackers HATE worms
2003-08-17
bleek (1 replies)
bleek (1 replies)
Seeing that this exploit could be even more fatal. I think this is just a live proof of concept with an attitude.
The shoe sorta fits because the worm targets windows update. This forces MS to do better software checking with a slap in the face.
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