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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praveen

The article is good in the sense that many people got new patches which would prevent hackers from attacking system. I feel the attacker is a windows guy not a linux as he is attacking and also giving the solution (got get it from windows update).If he really wanted to mess around real bad he could had induced more stealth to the exe and more damage to the system which is so easy to do.

But i agree that this is just the tip of the iceberg there are many more vulnerabities known to the hacker which they will reveal as time goes by.

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