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Today marks the 28th anniversary of the Morris Worm, which devastated large portions of the nascent Internet on November 2, 1988. Even though it was unleashed nearly three decades ago, it was more advanced than the Mirai worm that compromised hundreds of thousands of IoT devices in recent weeks.
The Morris Worm source code on a floppy disk was on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Photo licensed under Creative Commons from
Intel Free Press,
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About Frank Rietta
Frank Rietta is a web application
security architect, author, and speaker. He is a
computer scientist with a Masters in Information Security from the
College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He speaks
about security topics and was a contributor to the security chapter of the
7th edition of the "Fundamentals of Database Systems" textbook
published by Addison-Wesley.
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