What is Morris Worm?
Morris was the first program of the computer to be expanded using the Internet. This self -religious, malicious computer program was written by a postgraduate student of Cornell University named Robert Morris and launched on November 2, 1988. It is estimated that Morris Worm infected at least 6,000 computers and caused many servers to fail. The Coordination Center for the reaction to the emergency reaction (CERT/CC) was created in December 1988 in response to the Morris Worm attack. As a result of this incident, Robert Morris became the first person convicted in the US for violating the law on computer fraud and abuse of 1986. As an informatics student, Morris was wondering how far and for what speed the worm could proliferate. Morris claimed that excessive compensation in the program protocol caused him to be able to infect the same computer many times, causing the device to be completely useless. Despite his claims on the incapmentation of unintended damage, it was found that Morris had triggered the worm from the computer to mAssachusetts Institute of Technology to obscure the fact that it actually originated in Cornell.
Morris Wrus has been changed from a relatively harmless experiment on a harmful attack on the network critical programming error. A computer worm uses a network such as the Internet, to find other computers connected to the network and download the unauthorized copy of the program on them. Before the worm pulls a copy of itself to the computer, it usually checks that it already exists. In order to avoid downloading, the computer can be programmed so that it falsely claims that a copy of the worm already exists. Morris tried to bypass the security measures by directed his worm to download more copies to each computer and caused a catastrophic overload.
It is assumed that Morris Worm infected at least 10% of all Internet -connected computers at the time of the incident. The overall effect on computer and internet security has madeThe US Department of Defense to create a centralized reaction to emergency emergencies known as CERT/CC. The US government liability Office estimated Morris damage to up to $ 100,000,000 in the US (USD). Robert Morris was convicted of federal charges and received three years of probation and a fine of $ 10,000 (USD). Later he became associate professor of computer science at the Massachusets Institute of Technology.