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How the world’s first cyberattack set the stage for modern cybersecurity challenges
Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to know how big the internet was – that is, how many devices were connected to it. So he wrote a program that would travel from computer to computer and ask each machine to send a signal back to a control server, which would keep count.
By Scott Shackelford, Indiana University via AP
TV host, not hackers, initiated FCC system malfunction
An Inspector General report found that spikes in FCC comment activity corresponded with a Last Week Tonight with John Oliver segment on net neutrality, not a malicious distributed denial of service attack.
By Jessie Bur
ProtonMail CEO: ‘The attacks are continuing’
The popular encrypted email messaging service says it is “under heavy” distributed denial-of-service attacks and “there may be intermittent connection problems.”
By Justin Lynch
Defending hospitals against life-threatening cyberattacks
Like any large company, a modern hospital has hundreds – even thousands – of workers using countless computers, smartphones and other electronic devices that are vulnerable to security breaches, data thefts and ransomware attacks. But hospitals are unlike other companies in two important ways.
By Mohammad S. Jalali, MIT Sloan School of Management via AP
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