From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 09:17:06 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! Message-ID: The infamous Morris Worm was released in 1988; making use of known vulnerabilities in Sendmail/finger/RSH (and weak passwords), it took out a metric shitload of SUN-3s and 4BSD Vaxen (the author claimed that it was accidental, but the idiot hadn't tested it on an isolated network first). A temporary "condom" was discovered by Rich Kulawiec with "mkdir /tmp/sh". -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."