October 2022
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
19h 57m
English
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ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ATTACKS in the more than 50-year history of the Internet happened in the late 1980s. The overall numbers may not have been impressive, but when you look at it from a percentage perspective, it may have been the most devastating attack ever. In November 1988, Robert T. Morris released a worm from a system located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), although he was at Cornell. The worm is estimated to have attacked 10 percent of the systems that were then connected to the Internet. The impact of the attack continued over several days while ...
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