, 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)
I think a major benefit of this worm is that it woke a lot of *admins* up to their exposure - that their firewall wasn't such a fortress after all. VPN users, RAS users, home laptops and other unmanaged security exposures bit them in the backside.
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