Search: Home Bugtraq Vulnerabilities Mailing Lists Jobs Tools Beta Programs
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.

Submit Comment Mode:
Name:
Subject:
Message:
 
  Enter the characters that appear above
 
The Bright Side of Blaster 2003-08-15
Anonymous
Thats right. The solution to the problem is to remove the service. Now if Ford had only removed the wheels from the Explorers they would never have rolled over from defective tires.

I'm so sick of this logic of firewalling everything and blaming anyone but the company that has produced the inse...

[ more ]  




 

Privacy Statement
Copyright 2009, SecurityFocus