According to its creator, the Morris worm was not written to cause damage, but to gauge the size of the Internet.

November 2 - The Morris worm is unleashed on the Internet.

The Morris worm exploited a call in fingerd.

It was one of several exploits used by the Morris worm to propagate itself over the Internet.

The Morris worm, in 1988, exploited an overflow vulnerability in (among others) to spread.

He initiated the Phage List as a response to the Morris Worm.

Robert Morris of Morris worm fame worked as a summer intern at Convex.

The Morris Worm.

Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.

The Morris worm spread in part by exploiting a stack buffer overflow in the Unix finger server.

The infamous Morris worm used a buffer overflow to spread, and malicious code has been using buffer overflows ever since to compromise machines.

Shortly after, a worm hit the Internet on November 3, 1988, when the so-called Morris Worm paralysed a good percentage of it.

However, as the Morris worm and Mydoom showed, even these "payload free" worms can cause major disruption by increasing network traffic and other unintended effects.

He later suggested that Gene Spafford should create the Phage mailing list as a response to the Morris Worm.

The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet.

Nimda was so effective partially because it-unlike other infamous malware like the Morris worm or Code Red-uses five different infection vectors:

Additionally, the Morris worm worked by exploiting known vulnerabilities in Unix sendmail, finger, and rsh/rexec, as well as weak passwords.

Later that year, the release by Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. of the so-called Morris worm provoked the popular media to spread this usage.

A 23-year-old graduate student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, released the Internet's first worm, the Morris worm.

After the release of the Morris worm, an early computer worm, its creator was convicted under the Act for causing damage and gaining unauthorized access to "federal interest" computers.

The most prominent case is Robert T. Morris, who was a user of MIT-AI, yet wrote the Morris worm.

From the time the Morris worm struck the Internet until the onset of the Melissa virus, the Internet was relatively free from swift-moving, highly destructive "malware."

The first center of its kind, it was created in Pittsburgh in November 1988 at DARPA's direction in response to the Morris worm incident.

In Digital: A Love Story, the Morris worm is portrayed as a cover story for a large-scale attack on ARPANET and several bulletin board systems.

November 2 - The Morris worm, the first computer worm distributed via the Internet, written by Robert Tappan Morris, is launched from MIT.