Computer viruses are celebrating their 40th birthday (well, 54th, really), (Tue, Feb 6th) …

[Nick]

Computer viruses are celebrating their 40th birthday (well, 54th, really),
(Tue, Feb 6th)

Although "cyber security" is a relatively new field, it already has quite
an interesting history, and it is worthwhile to look back at it from time
to time. One historical event, that took place in February of the
Orwellian year 1984, and which – therefore – celebrates its 40th
anniversary this month, was publishing of Federic Cohen’s paper entitled
"Computer viruses: Theory and experiments"[1], which is often cited as the
origin of the term "computer virus".

While this is not strictly correct, as probably the first recorded use of
the word "virus" to refer to a malicious computer program happened all the
way back in 1970, when Gregory Benford’s short story entitled "The Scarred
Man" was published in May issue of Venture magazine[2,3], and Cohen
himself did some previous work on the subject, it is true that Cohen’s
article was almost certainly the first published academic work where the
term was at least somewhat formally defined, and where a (pseudo)code of a
virus was actually included[4].

Cohen defined "virus" as "a program that can 'infect' other programs by
modifying them to include a possibly evolved copy of itself", and
demonstrated potential function of such a program with the following
pseudocode.

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Dark Avenger и епичната му борба с Веселин Бончев откъде са тръгнали :)

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