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From the time the Morris worm struck the Internet until the onset of the Melissa virus, the Internet was relatively free from swift-moving, highly destructive "malware". The Melissa virus, however, was rapacious; damages have been estimated at nearly $400 million. It marked a turning point, being the first incident of its kind to affect the ...
November 2: The Morris worm, created by Robert Tappan Morris, infects DEC VAX and Sun machines running BSD UNIX that are connected to the Internet, and becomes the first worm to spread extensively "in the wild", and one of the first well-known programs exploiting buffer overrun vulnerabilities.
Led by India with 116 shutdowns, governments weaponized Internet access at an all-time high in 2023, a new report finds. 2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds Skip to main ...
Mauritania was taken offline for two straight days after a submarine internet cable was cut. No one knows why, although Sierra Leone's government was interfering with its citizens' internet access ...
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
Without protective legislation, strong rules, cybercops, better security and tech-literate users, it seems inevitable that we wake one day to zero balances.
In 2011, a 20-year-old man from Brisbane, Australia fell to his death after planking on a seven-story building. Salt and ice challenge – Internet phenomenon wherein participants pour salt on their bodies, usually on the arm and ice is then placed on the salt.
Of all the scams we've seen this year, there's a handful that truly stand out.