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Subject: Morris Woim (was Re: The Software that ate etc.)
From: padgett @ tccslr . dnet . mmc . com (A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security)
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 95 17:51:55 -0400
To: "firewalls @ greatcircle . com"@UVS1.dnet.mmc.com

Jeff rites:
>I am wondering when the next *automated* attack, of a worm form, will take
>place. 

Don't forget, the damage done but the worm was caused by a mistake in the code
that caused it to propagate without control.

Also, "S" is essentially an Internet war-dialer. Like the first of those, it
is sequential and predictable. Current war-dialers such as TONELOC (is the 
best one I know on the net) are not seqential any more.

						Warmly,
							Padgett

ps I was off by a couple of weeks - someone I know has already ported it
   to a notebook using FreeBSD & dropping the WWW requirement.

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