Elk Cloner

1982 The first example of Apple malware can be traced back thirty years ago to a high school classroom in Mount Lebanon, Penn. It was there that Richard Skrenta, a student at Mt. Lebanon High School coded Elk Cloner, a virus that was passed around via the now archaic Apple II platform. The virus ...

40th anniversary of the computer virus !

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world's first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010. Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally use...