The Department of Defense thought the Russians were attacking. An MIT computer called PREP was the first to be penetrated. It was Nov. 2, 1988, and the time was approximately 8 p.m. Within hours and into the following morning, an estimated 10% of all machines connected to the Internet would crash, overloaded with several copies of a mysterious program. . It wasn The link for this article located at Mashable is no longer available. . In November 1988, a coding error by Robert Tappan Morris led to the Morris Worm, drastically reshaping internet security and highlighting vulnerabilities across networks. Hacker Impact, Cybersecurity Evolution, Historical Cyber Events. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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