Security professionals say, 16 years ago today the birth of the first Internet worm, compared with the year, and today's network security situation has undergone great changes.
In the November 2, 1988 midnight, when he was 23-year-old MIT student named Maurice "Morris worm" was also released to the burgeoning Internet.In just 2 hours, only 90 lines of code in the "Morris worm" that run the Unix operating system, thousands of the VAX and Sun, a computer system overload occurred and forced administrators to disconnect their computer systems and networksthe connection between to prevent the further spread of the worm.
"Morris worm" is part of a research project, nothing malicious purposes, but it can replicate itself.Unfortunately, one of the bug so that it can be infected several times the same computer system, causing thousands of computer systems to run virtually stopped.Morris for his "research" paid the price, though not imprisoned, but was sentenced to perform community service, and was sentenced to a fine of $ 10,000.
Security experts said that 16 years ago, the Internet or a closed system, only scientific research and military institutions.Once it is open to the public ━ ━ become the WWW, the attitude of the security must be changed.Sophos senior technology consultant for the Australian company's safety seats, said that since the "Morris worm" incident, the network and the means of communication between computer systems has changed a lot.He said at the time, as "remote login", "remote shell", "remote copy" and other commands to be widely used.As long as the landing of a system to be able to access to access other systems do not even need a password.People trust each other very much.
Network management specialist NetIQ vice president and product manager, said Matt, now with the then largest difference is the number of users of Internet worms.He said, "Morris worm" worm just makes some academic institutions has been lost in time, and as the "shock wave", "Sasser" worm in the modern Internet and other communication, they affect the business, the normal operation of government departmentsand even students can not complete their homework.In the breadth and depth, the impact of the worm have greatly increased, the impact on people's daily life has greatly increased.
Chairman An said that in the next 16 years, malicious software is unlikely to disappear, but its influence will be weakened, because the software companies in the development of software security issues are taken into account.He said that the new generation of Internet will be based on IPv6.IPv6 are designed to take into account the security, IP address to include a safety factor.IPv4 is currently more widely used is open to consider, in the initial design did not take into account security.Chairman An said the next 16 years, the basis of the security network infrastructure will enable any malicious software spread rapidly around the Internet, the possibility of significantly reduced.
But Matt said, IPv6 is a long-term project, because it needs to be replaced a lot of hardware, requiring a longer upgrade cycle.He said the solution is to establish security in the infrastructure, but many devices have been used three or four years, and they can not be eliminated immediately because they can also play a role.