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Morris Worm

nounid 3300·updated May 9, 2026
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A worm program written by Robert T. Morris, Jr. that flooded the ARPANET in November, 1988, causing problems for thousands of hosts.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat90%rule-basedr:entity.threat.attack.v1

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Morris Worms
possessive
Morris Worm's
pluralpossessive
Morris Worms'

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
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A worm program written by Robert T. Morris, Jr. that flooded the ARPANET in November, 1988, causing problems for thousands of hosts.

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