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 ...

The first Internet worm appeared on this day 16 years ago and online security has never been the same, say security professionals. At around midnight on November 2, 1988 the Morris worm, which was ...

Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to know how big the Internet was – that is, ...

It's one of the biggest Internet disasters of all time, yet many of today's technology consultants don't remember the online carnage. Long before virus outbreaks like NakedWife, Kournikova, Melissa ...

Let me preface this with the observation that the old saying “Time flies when you are having fun” may not be applicable in this instance. That said, for those of us of a certain age and/or who have a ...

Our connected world comes with countless risks. Viruses, worms, spyware, ransomware, backdoors, trojans: The language of cybersecurity is relatively new, but we have quickly become fluent. The misuse ...

Marketers who were around back in 1988 may recall Morris, the first computer worm. Well, meet Morris II, “the first worm designed to target GenAI ecosystems through the use of adversarial ...

Considered the first major attack on the ‘Net, the Morris worm served as a wake-up call to the Internet engineering community about the risk of software bugs, and it set the stage for network security ...