Morris Worm

Morris Worm definition - hacker
Unleashed on November 3, 1988, it—named after its developer, Robert Morris—crashed the Internet by exploiting bugs in several UNIX programs, including sendmail and finger.

See Also: Exploit; Sendmail; UNIX; Virus; Worm.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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