The Science Quiz | Computer viruses

On January 30, 1982, computer programmer Richard Skrenta wrote the world’s first computer virus that ‘escaped’ to other networks. What is the name for computer code that mutates its algorithm every time it is run, but such that every mutation keeps the algorithm’s function intact? Name the computer worm believed to have been created in 2005 and discovered in 2010, and which has been blamed for significantly disrupting Iran’s nuclear programme by damaging the centrifuges. Visual: Name this Hungarian and American scientist who, in a 1949 lecture, broached the idea of self-replicating computer programs, which viruses later came to be.