State and federal law enforcement authorities have announced a second arrest related to a variant of the Blaster computer worm. Meanwhile, security experts are watching and waiting for another virus variant to take advantage of a similar security hole in Microsoft Windows systems. Blaster took advantage of a Remote Procedure Call vulnerability to spread among nearly half a million machines in August, but the arrests of Minnesota’s Jeffrey Lee Parson, a Romanian man and now a juvenile in the United States involve variants of the worm that had more limited impact.
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Blaster Variant Suspect Arrested
Posted by: Jay Lyman September 29, 2003 09:43 AMState and federal law enforcement authorities have announced a second arrest related to a variant of the Blaster computer worm. Meanwhile, security experts are watching and waiting for another virus variant to take advantage of a similar security hole in Microsoft Windows systems. Blaster took advantage of a Remote Procedure Call vulnerability to spread among nearly half a million machines in August, but the arrests of Minnesota’s Jeffrey Lee Parson, a Romanian man and now a juvenile in the United States involve variants of the worm that had more limited impact.