| The silent network: denying the spam and malware chatter using free tools: BSDCan, Ottawa, May 18th 2007 | ||
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First unix worm - November 2, 1988
system specific: ran on vaxbsd, sun3
exploited bugs and sloppiness: bugs in sendmail (debug mode) and finger (buffer overflow) + gullibility (passwordless rsh)
replicated and spread itself to neighboring systems
lead to denial of service: bugs made it more efficient than intended; possibly one of the earliest DOSes recorded
estimated to have reached (and used) 10% of the internet - 6,000 hosts
Made Unixers aware of the problem