Two decades of worms

Opinion
Oct 31, 20081 min

This Sunday, the Morris worm turns 20. It is considered the first major attack on the Internet, though at the time the full implications were not appreciated.

Launched around 6 p.m. on Nov. 2, 1988, the Morris worm disabled approximately 10% of all Internet-connected systems, which were estimated at more than 60,000 machines.

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