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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

Though this work began in the 1940s, it, along with his other work in the field of self-replication, was eventually compiled and distributed via the 1966 paper “Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata.”. Named after a character from “Scooby-Doo,” the Creeper was originally intended as a security test for the U.S.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. OSes today are basically ineffective database managers, so why not build an OS that’s a database manager? Michael Coden, Associate Director, Cybersecurity, MIT Sloan, along with Michael Stonebreaker will present this novel concept at RSAC 2023. He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021.

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Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server: a next generation of deeper, wider content silos? | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

Google unplugs Windows Google decides that a security invasion from China was the last straw and bans the use of. Taxonomies and tagging, threaded discussion, wikis and other ‘Enterprise 2.0 ‘ tools are an alternative solution to the problem of generating mountains of hard to find silo’d information and associated email.