Cybersecurity in 2021
6 min readAug 10, 2021
As cybersecurity and technology have evolved, so have criminals and “malicious users” looking to exploit system weaknesses for personal gain or prove something.
The emerging theory of computer viruses was made in 1949 when computer science pioneer John Von Neumann speculated that computer programs could reproduce.
The first reference to malicious hacking was in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology student newspaper. Although by the 1960s…