This talks a good bit about how some of the default passwords the Morris Worm checked for in 1988 are on the list of commonly used passwords in 2018. Which is kind of sad but understandable and somewhat excusable because, we’ll, humans.
But it overlooks what I think is actually a way sadder and bigger issue: The Morris Worm utilized a buffer overflow in fingerd as one of its propagation mechanisms.
Here we are 30 years later and still dealing with code execution vulnerabilities because of various memory mismanagement issues. [face palm]
But it overlooks what I think is actually a way sadder and bigger issue: The Morris Worm utilized a buffer overflow in fingerd as one of its propagation mechanisms.
Here we are 30 years later and still dealing with code execution vulnerabilities because of various memory mismanagement issues. [face palm]