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Solaris/IIS worm hits 9000 boxes in 48 hours

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Stephen)
Fri May 11 16:19:10 2001

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18882.html

......The quite reliable hacker tracker attrition.org is reporting that
nearly nine thousand machines had been auto-defaced by the sadmind/IIS worm
as of Tuesday, making it one of the most effective little scripts ever
loosed on the Net.......


Stephen Petri


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