Fwd: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!

-------- Original Message -------- From: Dave Horsfall Sent: November 1, 2019 8:36:39 PM UTC To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! 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". Another fix was to move the C compiler elsewhere. -- Dave