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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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ISP firewalling 2003-08-18
Anonymous
Comcast inherited many systems when it purchased ATT Broadband, which in turn, inherited many systems when it purchased MediaOne. MediaOne blocked ports 137-139 for most of its lifetime, and I believe it's successors have done the same. I'd bet they block port 135 as well. The original rationale ...

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