Author: Alun Baker

During recent months we’ve witnessed an unexpected and distressing pandemic of a coronavirus disease. What I find especially distressing about it is how the worldwide adversity was caused by just a tiny thing – namely, a virus called SARS-CoV-2.   However, biological viruses have always been a potent threat to humanity as multiple historic pandemics have proved. No wonder viruses became an ideal weapon model in a totally different world – a world of programming. The first computer viruses were created as early as in the 1970s. Starting as pranks, they evolved to become a major threat to computer networks’ stability…