Contrary to popular belief, Fred Cohen is not the father of the computer virus. So to whom does this dubious honour belong?
In 1983 at the University of Southern California, Fred Cohen gave the first public demonstration of a class of computer program that his doctoral supervisor - Leonard Adelman, co-creator of the RSA...
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