The worm that broke the internet
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Today marks 38 years since an American graduate student released the first so-called Internet worm, which infected 10 percent of computers.
The worm that broke the internet
Even before the World Wide Web (WWW) came into existence, there was Morris worm — one of the first computer worms that the internet ever saw. Created by Robert Tappan Morris, then a student, it changed the landscape of networking like never before. A.S.Ganesh wriggles his way through this story to hand you the best bits…
A day like today in 1988, the graduate student of Cornell University (United States) Robert Tappan Morris unleashed the “Gusano Morris”, the first computer virus distributed over the Internet. Being the son of Robert Morris, one of the co-authors of UNIX (a portable, multitasking and multiuser operating system developed in 1969), [...] The entry 38 years of the first massive hacking on the Internet was first published in First Edition.
One night in November 1988, a bored young programmer wrote a program. Within a few hours, about 6,000 computers were paralyzed.
Shortly after 8:30 p.m., a program begins to pass from computer to computer. It does not need a human to copy it, nor does it ask for permission to install itself. It looks for open… The worm that paralyzed 6,000 computers – The day the Internet learned to be afraid - ΙΝΑΦΤΕΜΟΠΟΡΙΚΙ
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