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

  • Written by Scott Shackelford, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Director, Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance; Cybersecurity Program Chair, IU-Bloomington, Indiana University
30 years ago, the world's first cyberattack set the stage for modern cybersecurity challengesFloods of traffic can clog up an internet server and the wires connecting it to other systems.BeeBright/Shutterstock.com

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...

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