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On This Day November 2, 1988 – The First Internet Worm Was Released

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On This Day November 2, 1988 – The First Internet Worm Was Released.

On this day November 2, 1988, the first major Internet worm, known as the Morris Worm, was released by Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris from a network at MIT. The self-replicating program spread rapidly across thousands of computers, causing slowdowns, crashes, and one of the earliest large-scale Internet security incidents in history.

The event exposed major vulnerabilities in early network systems and brought public attention to the importance of cybersecurity and...
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