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Cybersecurity as a field is also very young, though it is older than TPRM. Cybersecurity is often thought to have begun after the first cyberattack was thwarted in 1986 in the Soviet Union, when Marcus Hess hacked into 400 military servers and the Pentagon. Intending to sell the information to the KGB, Hess was foiled by American Clifford Stoll.

In the 1970s, several attacks occurred on the early internet. For example, Bob Thomas created the first computer worm named Creeper, which traveled between early APRANET terminals with the message “I'M THE CREEPER: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.” Also, in the same decade, Ray Tomlinson created the worm, Reaper, the first antivirus software that could find copies of Creeper and delete them. However, the one that finally illustrated the need for information security at the doorstep of the novice IT industry was the Morris Worm.