MSBlast copycat set to pounce

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
Apparently a security firm has warned that due to the constant and continual flaws still being discovered in Windows, the likelihood of more Blaster like/on the same scale as virus's ermerging soon is growing by every passing hour.
"A new Blaster-like worm family could be created in a matter of hours or days, now that exploit source code has been posted in the underground," Dunham wrote in an e-mail. "The new attack tool makes it trivial for any malicious actor to gain unauthorized root access to an unpatched computer."

The full report:
http://rss.com.com/2100-1002_3-5077666.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/139967_msfttool17.html

Source - CNET
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