In 1981, a bored teenager on Christmas vacation from Mt. Lebanon High School in Pennsylvania wrote the first known microcomputer virus which was aimed at a vulnerability the then popular Apple II ...
Believed to be the first virus released into the wild, the Elk Cloner reflected the camp spirit of the frontier days of computing in the early '80s. It was written by 15-year-old prankster Rich ...
"Elk Cloner" - self-replicating like all other viruses - bears little resemblance to the malicious programs of today. Yet in retrospect, it was a harbinger of all the security headaches that would ...
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