On the night of November 2, 1988, a graduate student's experimental program slipped loose on the early internet. The Morris Worm, as it became known, spread faster than its author expected and jammed roughly 6,000 of the era's 60,000 connected computers within a day. It was the first internet attack to make national news, and it led directly to the first coordinated cybersecurity response teams.
Security stopped being an afterthought the morning everyone saw how fast one program could spread.
The lesson hasn't really changed: connected systems need watching. The threats are more sophisticated now, but the basics that would have slowed that first worm, prompt updates, monitoring, and least-privilege access, still do the heavy lifting. It's why every site we look after comes with real security and maintenance, not just a launch and a wave goodbye.
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