`Satan' Invades Security of Cyberspace

The Journal Record | April 6, 1995| | Copyright

"Satan" arrived Wednesday, causing computer experts everywhere to look deep into their souls and machines and ask: Am I ready?

Chances are, they're not.

"Satan" is a sophisticated software program, which finds security flaws in any computer system linked to the Internet, the global network of computers. Security experts and computer crooks will be scrambling for copies of "Satan" to find security holes in computers throughout the world.

The creation of Dan Farmer, a noted computer security expert, and Wietse Venema, a security programmer at the Netherlands' University of Eindhoven, ...

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