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
Floods of traffic can clog up an internet server and the wires connecting it to other systems.BeeBright/Shutterstock.comBack 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...