The Bright Side of Blaster

The Bright Side of Blaster
Kevin Poulsen, 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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MS has rights to hack your machine... in some cases(?!) 2003-08-21
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The Bright Side of Blaster 2003-08-16
Applied Slave

Exactly!! These clowns need to be up to speed. Blaster. Please!! A professional hacker is already 10 steps ahead of the blaster exploit, this industry is just scrambling to cover their asses. I love it when they say "i'm an MCSE" I always think, well when I run out of toilet paper let me get at that certificate so I can wipe my crack!! Thoes pompus bastards deserve the ass kicking they got Monday..

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