The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention. It resulted in the first felony conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.[1] It was written by a graduate student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on 8:30 pm November 2, 1988, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology network.
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The Morrisworm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant...
Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morrisworm in 1988, considered...
computer. Many worms are designed only to spread, and do not attempt to change the systems they pass through. However, as the Morrisworm and Mydoom showed...
timeline of computer viruses and worms presents a chronological timeline of noteworthy computer viruses, computer worms, Trojan horses, similar malware...
escalation and gain unlimited access to the computer's resources. The famed Morrisworm in 1988 used this as one of its attack techniques. Programming languages...
in the webcomic Internet Explorer, alongside the likewise personified MorrisWorm. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Vol. 27–28. IEEE Computer Society...
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first well-known worm was the Morrisworm of 1988, which infected SunOS and VAX BSD systems. Unlike a virus, this worm did not insert itself into other...
beast slain during the course of the Völsungasaga, is a worm in William Morris's rendition. The Worm Ouroboros, a 1922 fantasy novel by E. R. Eddison, invokes...
community. The most prominent case is Robert T. Morris, who was a user of MIT-AI, yet wrote the Morrisworm. The Jargon File hence calls him "a true hacker...
co-conspirators) on 15 Feb 1990. In 1988, one of the first computer worms, called the Morrisworm, was distributed via the Internet. It gained significant mainstream...
Robert Tappan Morris created the Morrisworm, considered the first notable computer worm to be distributed via the Internet. The worm was launched from...
problems such as fork bombs. Developments were mostly theoretical until the Morrisworm, which exploited a buffer overflow in fingerd. The field of computer...
Spafford initiated the Phage List as a response to the MorrisWorm, one of the earliest computer worms. Spafford has served on the faculty at Purdue University...
the ACM. Later that year, the release by Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. of the so-called Morrisworm provoked the popular media to spread this usage. The popularity...
(priapulid worms, from Gr. πριάπος, priāpos 'Priapus' + Lat. -ul-, diminutive), sometimes referred to as penis worms, is a phylum of unsegmented marine worms. The...
porting C to a new platform is comparatively easy. C++ Standard Library Morrisworm that takes advantage of the well-known vulnerability in gets() have been...
is lifted on January 29. January 22 – Robert Tappan Morris is convicted of releasing the Morrisworm. January 25 Avianca Flight 052 crashes into Cove Neck...
Mail delivery agent Mail user agent msmtp Internet messaging platform Morrisworm MeTA1 "Release Notes". D. J. Bernstein (1996-11-27). "Internet host SMTP...
protection. The Morrisworm in 1988 spread in part by exploiting a stack buffer overflow in the Unix finger server.[1] The Slammer worm in 2003 spread...
needed] There are viruses and worms that target Unix-like operating systems. In fact, the first computer worm—the Morrisworm—targeted Unix systems. There...
VNET was covered up. Shortly after, a worm hit the Internet on 3 November 1988, when the so-called MorrisWorm paralysed a good percentage of it. This...
Christmas Tree EXEC "worm" causes major disruption to the VNET, BITNET and EARN networks. The MorrisWorm. Graduate student Robert T. Morris, Jr. of Cornell...
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