A nice analysis of the worm that was published shortly after the incident is "With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988"

A nice analysis of the worm that was published shortly after the incident is "With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988" by Eichin and Rochlis [1]. I was an intern at IBM UK at the time and I remember it caused quite a lot of interest, and perhaps confusion. The gateway between IBM's corporate network (VNET, mainly) and and the (then) academic-only internet was shut down for a few days while people got a grip on exactly what was going on. Simpler times. [1] http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece845/docs/eichin.pdf http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece845/docs/eichin.pdf