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37 years ago this week, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Internet within 24 hours — worm slithered out and sparked a new era in cybersecurity

This week in 1988, Cornell graduate student Robert Tappan Morris unleashed his eponymous worm upon the Internet. The wave of infections grew to 10% of the entire Internet within 24 hours, causing ...
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The Morris Worm Turns 30

Michele Guel was sound asleep on Nov. 3, 1988, when the call came at 3:30 a.m.: An unknown virus had infiltrated NASA Ames Research Laboratory's Sun Microsystems file servers and workstations and was ...
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25 Years After: The Legacy Of The Morris Internet Worm

Stuart McClure was an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado in Boulder 25 years ago when dozens of the university's servers suddenly began crashing. The university, like other ...