30 years ago, the world’s first cyberattack set the stage for modern cybersecurity challenges

Scott Shackelford, Indiana University Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to know how big the internet was – that is, how many devices were connected to it. So he wrote a program that would travel from computer… Continue reading 30 years ago, the world’s first cyberattack set the stage for modern cybersecurity challenges