Re: A code red that could bring down the net?

From: Meritt James (meritt_james@bah.com)
Date: 07/25/01 

Message-ID: <3B5F2E93.29C9BE5A@bah.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:39:47 -0400
From: "Meritt James" <meritt_james@bah.com>
To: Patrick Smallwood <smalwood@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: A code red that could bring down the net?

Beats me. I suspect he is referring to the Robert T. Morris, Jr. worm
that zapped us back in Nov. 1988...

V/R

Jim "hit to the left of me, hit to the right of me, missed me!" Meritt

Patrick Smallwood wrote:
>
> I give up...who is William T Morris? My G-Dads name is Morris Williams, but
> he doesnt like the Internet, much less interested in a "Big DoS" of it...
>
> Thanks,
> Pat
>
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> "Dom De Vitto"
> <dom@devitto.c To: <vuln-dev@securityfocus.com>,
> om> <SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com>
> cc:
> 07/23/2001 Subject: RE: A code red that could bring down the net?
> 02:36 PM
>
>
>
> I think a guy called William 'T' Morris may have had this idea first.
> Allegedly :-)
>
> History. History. History.
>
> Dom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Lewis [mailto:jlewis@packetnexus.com]
> Sent: 23 July 2001 06:08
> To: 'josh abulamhammedramashi'; vuln-dev@securityfocus.com;
> SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com
> Subject: RE: A code red that could bring down the net?
>
> The internet isn't a big hub. If I connect a machine with an IP that is
> identical to yours, I don't knock you off the net. There is routing and
> switching involved. If you change your IP to 192.168.1.1 (example IP), the
> entire net needs to know how to get to your IP. Just changing it doesn't
> make that happen. Changing IP's isn't a DDoS.
>
> How about this instead? A worm that is not only windows, but also unix
> based. It carries payload for each OS. It works similar to CodeRed and
> replicates itself. It also installs a zombie client and creates backdoors.
> Imagine a worm that wraps all the viruses in the 16 months into one. What
> if it actively searched out victims while also using Outlook to propagate
> itself.
>
> BTW, I want the 5 minutes back that it took me to read that paper. I also
> didn't cc Mark, he probably gets enough junk mail.
>
> Jason Lewis
> http://www.packetnexus.com
> It's not secure "Because they told me it was secure".
> The people at the other end of the link know less
> about security than you do. And that's scary.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: josh abulamhammedramashi [mailto:whoredware@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 10:42 PM
> To: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com; SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com
> Cc: Marc Maiffret
> Subject: A code red that could bring down the net?
>
> I just wanted some input on this paper I wrote, It'd
> be nice for some input and constructive critiscm. I'd
> like to get this to eventually make the guest writer
> section on security focus. You can view it at
> http://www.whoredware.com/codered.html
>
> thanks-
> enigmabomb
> enigmabomb@nyc2600.org
>
> p.s. sorry about the cross posts, but this seems
> pertinent to both.
>
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-- 
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