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The first worm, known as the Morris Worm, was written by Robert Morris at the MIT [Artfical Intellegence]? Laboratory. It was released on November 2, 1988, and quickly infected most of the computers on the Internet. |
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The first worm, known as the Morris Worm, was written by Robert Morris at the MIT [Artfical Intellegence]? Laboratory. It was released on November 2, 1988, and quickly infected a great many of the computers on the Internet. It propagated through a number of bugs in BSD Unix and its derivatives. Morris himself was convicted under the US Computer Crime and Abuse Act, received 3 years probation, community service and a fine in excess of $10,000. |
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In the summer of 2001, the [Code Red worm]? was released. It got much publicity because it targeted the [Whitehouse website]. |
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In the summer of 2001, the [Code Red worm]? was released. It was just another computer worm but it got much publicity because it targeted the [Whitehouse website]. |
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