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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X-HUMANATION - http://www.sinred.com (1 replies)

I say that this was a warning to MS. As it says in msblast.exe "...stop making money and fix your software". How true is that.. MS have probably known that DCOM was exploitable, yet they do nothing about it until it becomes a world wide issue/problem..

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