CERT/CC

On this day in 1988, Robert Tappan Morris released what became known as the Morris worm from MIT's network, and it spread rapidly across the early Internet, disrupting thousands of machines. The incident led to the first felony conviction under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and prompted the creation of the CERT/CC coordination center at Carnegie Mellon University. Commenters marking the anniversary note it as a founding moment for modern cybersecurity.