Morris worm infected 10% of Internet within 24 hours

Synopsis

In November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University graduate student, unleashed the Morris worm, considered the first major cyberattack, onto the early internet. This worm, designed to gauge the size of the internet, spread rapidly, infecting...

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