An Abridged History of Malware
2023-12-09 , Rookie track

In the immortal words of David Byrne, well... how did we get here?

This talk will be a look at 74 years of malware history, from John von Neumann's first proposals for self-replicating automata to the present day. We'll cover the ground-breaking, the destructive, the infectious, and the funniest.

A computer science student from York. They're known to enjoy Wikipedia rabbit holes and data protection standards