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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
rleroy (at) avantages (dot) com [email concealed]
It's funny to see how Windows worms evoluated. Do you remember Code Red and the unicode flaw?

It took almost 6 months for security experts to consider the flaw serious, nobody was expecting a worm out of this !!! Script Kiddie were at the 7th sky, lots of servers were vulnerable, until code red...

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