The first time a buffer overflow was used as part of an attack on information systems, at least the best I can find, was the infamous 1988 Morris worm. While the Morris worm propagated across Unix, ...

In 1988, the relatively nascent internet experienced its first cyber worm. In just 24 hours, the Morris worm, named after its creator Robert Morris, spread to roughly 10% of the computers on its ...

Michele Guel was sound asleep on Nov. 3, 1988, when the call came at 3:30 a.m.: An unknown virus had infiltrated NASA Ames Research Laboratory's Sun Microsystems file servers and workstations and was ...