On Aug 18, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Paul Hill wrote:
Never heard of the internet worm, aka the Morris worm?
However, that was quite some time ago (1988!)
Sure, but the fault for this was largely the use of weak passwords.
It used advanced (for the time) dictionary attacks to guess the
password it needed; any machines that survived the password guessing
was not infected.
Hell, if you got on my server and I had set up a stupid root
password like 'root' or 'password', you could do all sorts of unsafe
things. But that is not the fault of the OS, and it is not the
exploit to which I referred: namely, a malware process grabbing root
privileges from the user account.
-- Ed Leafe
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