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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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The Bright Side of Blaster 2003-08-15
Anonymous
Maybe the author of the worm had this in mind. Forcing the masses to patch their systems since it's impact isnt *that* great.

Seeing that this exploit could be even more fatal. I think this is just a live proof of concept with an attitude.

The shoe sorta fits because the worm targets windows up...

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