WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s new cyber strategy calling for minimum security standards across multiple economic sectors looks likely to face opposition from some lawmakers and businesses as U.S. officials work to implement the blueprint.
Committee chairman Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., speaks during a House Homeland Security Committee meeting Feb. 28 about the U.S-Mexico border on Capitol Hill in Washington.
History of online security, from CAPTCHA to multifactor authentication
1970s: Antivirus software
A computer virus is a piece of software the user typically downloads when they click on an infected email attachment or another file. The first virus was a 1970s program called Creeper, which was designed to crawl the early internet known as ARPANET, according to a report from Cyber Magazine. Like modern penetration testers, researchers wanted to see how they could hypothetically invade their own system. In response, email inventor Ray Tomlinson wrote a program he named Reaper, which chased and destroyed Creeper. That makes Reaper the first-ever antivirus program, creating a genre that endures today.
Committee chairman Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., speaks during a House Homeland Security Committee meeting Feb. 28 about the U.S-Mexico border on Capitol Hill in Washington.
