On this day in technology history, a graduate student’s self-replicating code that could gain control of a system inspired the term “computer virus”.
In his 1983 paper “Computer Viruses – Theory and Experiments,” Cohen defined a computer virus as “a program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself.” Cohen didn’t invent the virus, but gave groundbreaking demonstration by inserting code into a Unix command.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Mikko Hypponen’s Picks For the Top 5 Viruses of All Time
https://blog.f-secure.com/mikko-hypponen-picks-top-5-viruses/
In the early days of computing, viruses were just for fun and were mostly innocent and harmless. Throughout the past 30 years in which F-Secure has been in this business, they’ve evolved, and nowadays viruses and malware cost billions of dollars in damage to consumers and businesses per year.
Here are Mikko’s picks for the top five viruses of all time:
https://youtu.be/ZJzSeyRDyKA
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Morris Worm Turns 30
How the historic Internet worm attack of 1988 has shaped security – or not.
https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities—threats/the-morris-worm-turns-30-/d/d-id/1333225