by Ivan Ristic - Director of Engineering at Qualys - Wednesday, 24 September 2014.
When I think about computer security, I like to go back to its early days and compare the situation then with the situation now. Taking a step back is very useful because, even though we work very hard, we need to ask ourselves if we’re making things fundamentally better. In other words, are we focusing our efforts on the right problems?
One of the first really significant computer security events in history is the Morris worm, which happened in November 1998. Named after its creator, Robert T. Morris, the Morris worm managed to spread to about 600 servers. Initially, that might not seem much, until you realise that those servers made about 10% of the Internet of that time. Thus, its impact was huge and generally led to system administrators starting to think about security.
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