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2. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   Appearance of Lehigh virus (discovered at its namesake university), [20] boot sector viruses such as Yale from the US, Stoned from New Zealand, Ping Pong from Italy, and appearance of the first self-encrypting file virus, Cascade. Lehigh was stopped on campus before it spread to the "wild" (to computers beyond the university), and as a result ...

3. List of security hacking incidents - Wikipedia

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   [131] [132] Imperial County, in the U.S. state of California, computer systems are seized by hackers using Ryuk ransomware. [133] May: computer systems belonging to the City of Baltimore are seized by hackers using ransomware known as RobbinHood that encrypts files with a "file-locking" virus, as well as the tool EternalBlue. [134] [135] [136 ...

4. List of computer worms - Wikipedia

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   Dismissing it would reboot the computer and then display the message again. Klez: October 2001 Koobface: December 2008 Targeted MySpace and Facebook users with a heading of "Happy Holidays". Leap-A: Oompa-Loompa Trojan worm February 14, 2006 Most known for being the first virus targeting Mac computers. Morris: November 2, 1988 Robert Tappan Morris

5. List of cyberattacks - Wikipedia

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   A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.

6. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 December 2024. Computer program that modifies other programs to replicate itself and spread Hex dump of the Brain virus, generally regarded as the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and compatibles A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by ...

7. WannaCry ransomware attack - Wikipedia

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   Snowden states that when "NSA-enabled ransomware eats the Internet, help comes from researchers, not spy agencies" and asks why this is the case. [ 171 ] [ 175 ] [ 176 ] Adam Segal , director of the digital and cyberspace policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations , stated that "the patching and updating systems are broken, basically ...

8. List of cybercriminals - Wikipedia

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   Convicted computer criminals are people who are caught and convicted of computer crimes such as breaking into computers or computer networks. [1] Computer crime can be broadly defined as criminal activity involving information technology infrastructure, including illegal access (unauthorized access), illegal interception (by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from ...

9. Comparison of computer viruses - Wikipedia

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   By the time the virus is identified, many names have been used to denote the same virus. Ambiguity in virus naming arises when a newly identified virus is later found to be a variant of an existing one, often resulting in renaming. For example, the second variation of the Sobig worm was initially called "Palyh" but later renamed "Sobig.b ...