Re: Port 445 hits

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@verizon.net)
Date: 03/11/03 

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 03:22:08 GMT

Jem Berkes wrote:
>>Why's that "wow"? The Morris Internet worm had a list of passwords to
>>try, and that was what? 15 years ago now?
>
>
> I'm surprised such a simple attack isn't hardcoded into more worms,
> actually surprised to hear that the last one was 15 years ago :) But wasn't
> it easier back then anyway? Like only the first 8 characters of the
> password actually mattered right?
>

This is still the case in Linux systems in certain cross-platform NIS
environments. (Don't get me going on this!)

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