, 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
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hackers HATE worms
2003-08-16
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hackers HATE worms
2003-08-17
bleek (1 replies)
bleek (1 replies)
It took almost 6 months for security experts to consider the flaw serious, nobody was expecting a worm out of this !!! Script Kiddie were at the 7th sky, lots of servers were vulnerable, until code red.
But now, when you look at Blaster Worm, it had an extremely fast timelife :
- 16th july : advisory published by Microsoft
- 16th august : no more windows workstations/servers vulnerable to RPC (a lot are still unpatched though)
Who are the winners ? certainly not the customers... Microsoft is. With those worms, the company has a chance to develop better reactions to incident like code red/blaster worm. Again, microsoft profits from LSD who found the flaw, and from the blaster worm author who launched the worm.
Just my 2 cents
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