Robert Tappan Morris: If the worms invade the Internet

Still one afternoon when itu.Di Massachusetts Institute of computer labsTechonlogy (MIT), at Tuesday, November 2, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris stillmengutak0atik bikinannya.Kono a computer program, the program will bedesertasinya.Morris basis that time was recorded as mahasisiwa doctorate inCornell University.Actually there was some disagreement about the computer program madeMorris.tapi everyone agreed to call the program as a kind of wormkomputer.Worm or worms, in a language we can Indonesia.Dari namesuspect, this computer program can reproduce, creeping and spreading to everywhere,from one computer to another.Unlike computer viruses, computer worms do not need to deliberatelyditunggangkan to a floppy or USB flash disks to spread computer diri.Wormnisa spread itself over the existing road that could connect him to theother computers such as Internet connection or a local computer network.Morris worm was programmed to spread themselves through a slitSecurity in computer operating systems UNIX.Salah one security holeMorris is exploited by security holes in Sendmail program, which manyused by Internet servers to send email.Lewat weaknesses in programSendmail was, from a distance Morris can issue a command to opena dialogue program, which effectively allows the worm to runother commands in its target machine.To be able to infiltrate into other computer systems, artificial Morris worm is programmed tofind a list of users on a network computer, and then began to chasepasswordnya.Pertama, computer users rely on laziness, the worm searchcomputer user password with the username of his example, his usernameYayan and password even yayan.Jika this way failed to penetrate the systemcomputer, the worm was ordered to try another username by using the list

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