Top 10 most notorious cyber attacks in history
Top 10 most notorious cyber attacks in history Robert Tappan Morris and the Morris Worm (1988): Creator of the first computer worm transmitted through the Internet, Morris, a student at Cornell Univeristy in the USA, claimed it his progeny was not aimed to harm but was made for the innocuous intent to determine the vastness of the cyberspace. Things went pear-shaped when a the worm encountered a critical error and morphed into a virus which replicated rapidly and began infecting other computers resulting in denial of service. The damage? 6000 computers were reportedly affected causing an estimated $10-$100 million dollars in repair bills. While this event could be pinned as being an unfortunate accident, it no doubt played a part in inspiring the calamitous distributed denial-of-service (DdoS) type of attacks we see today. MafiaBoy causes $1 billion dollars in damages (2000): Another 15 year old that caused mischief in cyber space was Michael Calce a.k.a. MafiaBoy. In 2000, C