Tag: virus writer
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Throwback Thursday: Virus Writer and Distributors ‘Attributable Viruses’
This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to July 1990, when VB looked at virus origins and some of the rare cases of attributable viruses. This week saw the confession of a former teenage virus writer: the author of the Leprosy and Leprosy.B viruses, which afflicted computer users in the early 90s, confessed all…
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Throwback Thursday: Regina v Christopher Pile: The Inside Story & Off with his Head!
This Throwback Thursday, we bring you not one but two (related) pieces from the archives as VB heads back to 1996 to look at events surrounding the issuing of the UK’s first custodial sentence for writing and distributing computer viruses. Over the last couple of years, the ‘Throwback Thursday’ trend has taken the Internet by…
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Estonian virus writer sent to jail
Author of Allapple virus sentenced. An Estonian man has been found guilty of creating and distributing the Allapple virus, and sentenced to a little over two and a half years in prison. The 44-year-old Artur Boiko pleaded not guilty to the charges, but was convicted based on evidence outlined by the prosecution which indicated that…