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I remember the day it hit, quite well .. it was a huge deal. Nobody thought the Internet (in those days) was that safe .. but nobody expected the extent to whi
by mmjaa 9y ago
I remember the day it hit, quite well .. it was a huge deal. Nobody thought the Internet (in those days) was that safe .. but nobody expected the extent to which the worm brought systems to its knees - it really woke a lot of us up to just how exposed we were.
I wonder what the equivalent would be in todays terms .. some sort of Facebook-crippling JS injection, or so? I think its hard to come up with an example in the modern era- the scales are much higher, so the chances of making such a huge impact a lot lower.
- NikolaeVarius 9y agoDynDNS DDOS was pretty crippling
- jandrese 9y agoGoogle/Bing search injection browser attack maybe? You can't write a character into your browser's address bar without being hit?
- sulam 9y agoA few years ago someone managed to do a similar thing with a JS attack on Twitter.
- cesarb 9y ago> some sort of Facebook-crippling JS injection, or so? You mean like the Samy worm (https://samy.pl/popular/ https://samy.pl/popular/)?
- astura 9y agoThe thing is, while Sammy was absolutely huge (and landed the author is a lot of legal trouble) it was totally harmless. The only thing is did was added a friend and a sentence to your MySpace profile, nothing that brings down sites or anything like that. Though technically MySpace did bring the site down to fix the worm though. Plus 12 years ago can hardly be considered "modern day" in computer terms. ;)