Category: NASA
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CHRISTMA EXEC … as clumsy or random as a blaster.
“Sherman, set the wayback machine to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, December 1987.” Bask in the madness of CHRISMA EXEC. Below is the source code of the first wide area network worm/trojan horse to cause a lot of grief worldwide. It spread across the network commonly known as BITNET (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET), and managed to traverse […]
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Oh shit, there I was…
Reports Say Hackers Broke into NASA Computer System GIRARD C. STEICHEN September 15, 1987 FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) _ Computer hackers broke into NASA’s worldwide data network throughout the summer and gathered secret information on space shuttle projects and rocket failures, West German media said Tuesday. News reports said young West Germans gained regular access […]