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Abstract: On the evening of 2 November 1988, someone "infected" the Internet with a worm program. That program exploited flaws in utility programs in systems based on BSD-derived versions of UNIX. The flaws allowed the program to break into those machines and copy itself, thus infecting those systems. This program eventually spread to thousands of machines, and disrupted normal activities and Internet connectivity for many days. It was the first major network-wide attack on computer systems, and thus was ... (Update)
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@misc{ spafford-failure,
author = "Eugene Spafford",
title = "A Failure to Learn from the Past",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/spafford03failure.html" }
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