Morris worm #shorts

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]Did you know that a single student once brought down 10% of the internet? Robert Tappan Morris was just a PhD student at Cornell University when he created something known as the Morris worm.

[00:00:11]Now, you might think worms are harmless, but this one wasn't. It exploited seven vulnerabilities all at once as it replicated itself across machines.

[00:00:21]Networks started to clog up. In just minutes, around 10% of the internet was paralyzed. Morris thought he'd created a harmless experiment, but instead, he triggered the first cyber catastrophe.

[00:00:34]One kid in his dorm room took down 60,000 systems and cost millions in damages. Is our internet still as vulnerable today?

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