On 8/18/06, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
IIRC it used buffer vulnerabilities in the BSD tools too. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
