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INFORMATION. "A computer virus has information storage of a self-representation." https://lnkd.in/dz3C6n5 View in LinkedIn

VIRAL ARCHAEOLOGY. "This timeline of computer viruses and worms presents a chronology of noteworthy computer viruses, computer worms, Trojan horses, similar malware, related research and events." https://lnkd.in/dmr9tdK View in LinkedIn

"CYBERATTACKS also spread wickedly fast. When hackers release a wave of malware-laced spam emails, it only takes 82 seconds for someone to get duped and become the first victim." https://lnkd.in/dZYM-Me View in LinkedIn

2015: "More than 317 million new pieces of malware -- computer viruses or other malicious software -- were created last year. That means nearly one million new threats were released each day." https://lnkd.in/dZYM-Me View in LinkedIn

2007: "attackers created over 700,000 new malicious programs." https://lnkd.in/dGC6A7c View in LinkedIn

INDIVISIBILITY. "Interdependence of virus parts. Living organisms cannot be arbitrarily divided without destroying them. The same is true of computer viruses. Should a computer virus have a portion of its “anatomy” excised, the virus would probably cease to function normally, if at all. Few viruses are written with superfluous code, and even so, the working code cannot be divided without disabling the virus." https://lnkd.in/eCG7b3z View in LinkedIn

SIMPLICITY BENEATH. "Throughout the natural and artificial world one observes phenomena of great complexity. Yesterday research in physics and to some extent biology and other fields have shown that the basic components of many systems are quite simple. It is now a crucial problem for many areas of science to elucidate the mathematical mechanisms by which large numbers of such simple components, acting together, can produce behavior of the great complexity observed." https://lnkd.in/dc_82je View in LinkedIn

NICHE EXPLOITATION. "Functional interactions with the virus’s environment. Viruses perform examinations of their host environments as part of their activities. They alter interrupts, examine memory and disk architectures, and alter addresses to hide themselves and spread to other hosts. They very obviously alter their environment to support their existence." https://lnkd.in/eCG7b3z View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXITY FROM SIMPLICITY. "Scientists have discovered in recent years that some seemingly complicated patterns, like the branching, jagged structures of plants, have simple descriptions in the language of fractal geometry, in which patterns are built up from rules repeated on different scales." https://lnkd.in/d8uZSVQ View in LinkedIn

"VIRUS METABOLISM. This property involves the organism taking in energy or matter from the environment and using it for its own activity. Computer viruses use the energy of computation expended by the system to execute. They do not convert matter, but make use of the electrical energy present in the computer to traverse their patterns of instructions and infect other programs." https://lnkd.in/eCG7b3z View in LinkedIn