Minnesota Teen Arrested for MSBlaster Worm

Federal agents on Friday arrested an unidentified 18-year old in St. Paul, Minnesota for allegedly creating a version of the MSBlaster worm which recently wreaked havoc on Internet-connected computers. Taking advantage of a flaw in Microsoft Windows made public in a mid-July security bulletin (MS03-026), the worm bogged down network traffic, was supposed to launch a denial-of-service attack against the Microsoft Windows Update web site and there is as yet unsubstantiated speculation that the worm may have had something to do with the Great Blackout of 2003 that hit the United States and Canada. For more information about the arrest you can see this article on CNN.com: Teen arrested in Internet 'Blaster' attack.