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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 2003-08-16
praveen
The article is good in the sense that many people got new patches which would prevent hackers from attacking system. I feel the attacker is a windows guy not a linux as he is attacking and also giving the solution (got get it from windows update).If he really wanted to mess around real bad he could ...

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