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Article: Bug bytes. (preventing computer virus attacks)
- Article from:
- Security Management
- Article date:
- September 1, 1989
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BUG BYTES
JUST AFTER 9:00 PM ON WEDNESDAY, November 2, 1988, a 23-year-old Harvard computer science graduate introduced a computer virus program into a national computer network that connected computers in military facilities, universities, and research centers across the nation. Using a computer at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where he was a first year graduate student, Robert Tappan Morris, Jr., tapped into a computer at the artificial intelligence laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and injected his viral program.
At 9:45 pm, the computers at NASA's Ames Research Center in California were infected. Princeton ...