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Morris Worm is Sweet 16

November 4th, 2004 by adam

Sixteen years ago, the first worm spread across the Internet. It used password cracking, a buffer overflow in fingerd, and a flaw in sendmail to spread.

At least today, sendmail seems more secure. Passwords and buffer overflows, check back in sixteen more.

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