This day is celebrated on November 30 since 1988. This year the first mass computer epidemic after which experts began to think of an integrated approach to support of information security was recorded.
The mass attack of a virus of "worm" received the name by name the creator - Morris. Then 6000 nodes of the ARPANET network - predecessors of the Internet were infected that caused damage in 96 million dollars.
The author of a virus would be found hardly, however the father, the computer expert of National security agency forced to admit deeds of the graduate student of Cornell University Robert Morris it. Considering the softening circumstances, Morris was sentenced to three years of prison conditionally, to four hundred hours of public operations and to a fine of 10 500 dollars.
In 1988 the American association of a computer hardware declared on November 30 in the International afternoon information security (Computer Security Day). Since then in this the international conferences on information security accompanied with the mass of interesting actions are held.
Remember that your safety on the Internet depends only on you. Don't forget to update anti-virus programs, to use fire-walls (Firewall) and hard to determine passwords which don't report at all. Also be especially vigilant by operation on computers public. safety.
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