The Morris Worm: How a Graduate Experiment Triggered the World’s First Internet Security Crisis
Introduction The Morris Worm is widely recognized as the first major cyber incident in internet history. Released in November 1988, the worm unintentionally crippled a significant portion of the early internet. What began as an academic experiment quickly escalated into a large-scale outage, permanently altering how organizations viewed system security, network trust, and responsible research. […]