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Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morris worm in 1988, [3] considered the first computer worm on the Internet. [4]
The worm's creator, Robert Tappan Morris, is the son of cryptographer Robert Morris, who worked at the NSA. A friend of Morris said that he created the worm simply to see if it could be done, and released it from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the hope of suggesting that its creator studied there, instead of Cornell.
Robert Tappan Morris was a Harvard graduate and a Cornell student who created the Morris Worm, a malicious program that infected thousands of computers in 1988. He was the first person convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for unauthorized access to protected computers.
31 Okt 2008 · Robert Tappan Morris, who wrote the first worm that infected 10% of the Internet in 1988, is now a respected computer science professor at MIT. Learn how he rebuilt his career and reputation after facing legal consequences for his actions.
2 Nov 2018 · Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell graduate student, wrote a program that infected thousands of computers and caused the first distributed denial of service attack on the internet. Learn how he accidentally destroyed the web, his legal consequences, and his current role at MIT.
26 Jul 2011 · 1989: Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University graduate student, is the first person to be indicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Morris was prosecuted for creating and...
16 Nov 2023 · Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell grad student, unleashed the first major cyberattack in U.S. history in 1988, crashing 10% of online machines. Learn how he became the first person to be convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and how he later founded Viaweb, an e-commerce platform.
