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Kimberley Vanvaeck, [1] also known by her online moniker Gigabyte, [2] is a virus writer from Belgium known for a long-standing dispute which involved the internet security firm Sophos and one of its employees, Graham Cluley. [1] [3] [4] [5] Vanvaeck wrote several viruses, including Quis, Coconut and YahaSux (also called Sahay).
In 1982, at age 15, as a high school student at Mt. Lebanon High School, Skrenta wrote the Elk Cloner virus that infected Apple II computers. It is widely believed to have been one of the first large-scale self-spreading personal computer viruses ever created. [2] In 1989, Skrenta graduated with a B.A. in computer science from Northwestern ...
Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland.She may have been born with typhoid fever as her mother was infected during pregnancy. [5] [6] [7] In 1884 at the age of 15, she emigrated from Ireland to the United States.
The college has also established the Mary Kenneth Keller Computer Science Scholarship in her honor. [22] Keller was an advocate for the involvement of women in computing [6] and the use of computers for education. She helped to establish the Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE). [23] She went on to write four books in the ...
Anna Kournikova, namesake of the virus. The virus was created by 20-year-old Dutch student Jan de Wit, who used the pseudonym "OnTheFly", on 11 February 2001. [2] It was designed to trick email users into opening an email attachment, ostensibly an image of Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova but instead hiding a malicious program.
Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н, Armenian: Ալեքսանդրա Էլբակյան, [1] [2] born 6 November 1988) is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard for copyright.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 73 critics' reviews of the film are positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "Factors beyond Gibney's control prevent Zero Days from offering a comprehensive look at its subject, but the partial picture that emerges remains as frightening as it is impossible to ignore."
Created the computer viruses 'Pathogen' and 'Queeg' Christopher Pile (born 1968 or 1969, also known as "the Black Baron") is a programmer who was sentenced to 18 months in jail in 1995 for creating and spreading two computer viruses called Pathogen and Queeg. [ 1 ]