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- From: sivap-s@acsu.buffalo.edu (Suresh .S)
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- Subject: Re: Internet Worm
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 11:03:38 GMT
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- Raymond Shwake (shwake@nearside.UUCP) wrote:
- : sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk (Stewart T Fleming) writes:
- :
- : >Does anyone have a reference to any study or analysis of
- : >the infamous Internet worm of a couple of years back that
- : >spread through the mail system ?
- :
- : *The* definitive study is probably "The Computer Worm: A Report to
- : the Provost of Cornell University on an Investigation Conducted by
- : The Commission of Preliminary Enquiry".
- :
- : Rik Farrow's _UNIX_System_Security_ text discusses the worm in
- : Appendix G. It repeats an article which appeared in UNIX World,
- : June 1990.
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- Aha, there are two more very good articles :-
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- (1) The Gene Spafford report(available in cs.purdue.edu:pub/spaff)
- (2) Another report from MIT by Mark Eichin & Jon Rochlis
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- Both are available from ftp.cs.buffalo.edu:pub/worm/
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- Suresh Sivaprakasam
- Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Amherst, NY - 14260-0001
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