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RSS msblastMicrosoft: Another busy Patch Tuesday
News The infamous MSBlast worm, which wreaked havoc in 2003, exploited a similar flaw, related to a Windows component called remote procedure call. As part of its monthly security update cycle, Microsoft on Tuesday released a... [09 Aug 2006]
Gates: We'll give away anti-spyware software
News While Microsoft turned its attention to general software security three years ago with its Trustworthy Computing Initiative, the spotlight on consumers began a year and a half ago, after the MSBlast worm infected... [16 Feb 2005]
MySQL worm spread halted
News While the thousands of compromised systems hardly compare to the millions of systems infected by MSBlast or hundreds of thousands compromised by Microsoft SQL Slammer, the MySQL worm is significant for a different... [31 Jan 2005]
Virus writer goes to jail
News A US federal judge on Friday sentenced a 19-year-old Minnesota man to 18 months in prison for unleashing a variant of the MSBlast worm. FBI agents arrested Parson at his home in Hopkins, Minnesota, in August 2003, just... [31 Jan 2005]
Microsoft's Sasser bounty hangs on conviction
News Although the software giant has placed quarter-million-dollar bounties on the heads of those responsible for the MSBlast worm, the Sobig virus and the MyDoom virus, no arrests have yet been made in those cases. [13 Sep 2004]
"Highly critical" IE flaw unplugged by XP SP2
News The SP2 software, which took almost a year to develop, comes as a response to the attack launched by the MSBlast worm on 11 August, 2003. An independent researcher warned that an Internet Explorer vulnerability could... [24 Aug 2004]
XP Service Pack 2: First security flaws found
News The major software update, which took almost a year to create, came to life after the MSBlast worm hit the internet on 11 August. Security researchers say they're starting to find flaws in Microsoft's latest major update... [19 Aug 2004]
Virus writers shouldn't get off so easy
Comment That's mild punishment for someone who admitted to inserting nasty features into the original version of MSBlast to make it more noxious. By releasing his MSBlast.B variant that took advantage of a bug... [18 Aug 2004]
Blaster suspect admits to court he created virus
News A 19-year-old Minneapolis man has pleaded guilty to unleashing part of the MSBlast worm attack that wreaked havoc on the internet last summer. Jeffrey Lee Parson admitted creating the MSBlast.B variant,... [12 Aug 2004]
DNS hack leaves corporate networks wide open
News Servers infected with the MSBlast worm, for example, used the service to lookup the address of Microsoft's windowsupdate.com server, and that made DNS a good method for detecting compromised computers. [02 Aug 2004]
Old-school worm loves Windows applications
News Finally, the worms scan for vulnerable PCs connected to the infected system's local network - using the same Windows vulnerability exploited by the MSBlast worm almost a year ago. The latest variant of the Lovgate worm... [08 Jul 2004]
Renegade program stealing passwords at banking sites
News In April, security experts warned that 'bot networks' - large networks of zombified home PCs - are a greater threat than high-profile worms such as Sasser and MSBlast, because they could be used to steal financial... [30 Jun 2004]
Canadians arrest teen over Randex worm
News The worm originally spread via IRC and file-sharing networks such as Kazaa and LimeWire but has been modified to automatically replicate in a similar way to the Sasser and MSBlast worms. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police... [27 May 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft's virus bounty
Cheat Sheet The announcement of these rewards followed the outbreaks of the MSBlast and Sobig viruses in 2003 which both targeted flaws in Microsoft's Windows operating system (there are still rewards on offer for information... [10 May 2004]
'Dangerous' Sasser variants already on the loose
News Airline Air Canada canceled flights in August due to its network being infected with a variant of the MSBlast worm. The MSBlast.B worm, also called Welchia and Nachi, spread so aggressively that it... [04 May 2004]
