A man uses a laptop at a coffee shop in downtown Hanoi. - AFP A man uses a laptop at a coffee shop in downtown Hanoi. - AFP In 2022, there were over 1.3 billion malware programmes in existence and 10 ...

Many students will not be saying "I love you" to their computers this Valentine's Day, as a slew of computer viruses have wrecked havoc on the Tufts campus this past week. Hundreds of students have ...

The computer virus has reached a new milestone: Its 40th birthday. And the evolution from the crude Creeper virus on 1971 to last year's Stuxnet virus, which could very well have marked the first shot ...

Researchers at Black Hat conference speculate that human and computer viruses could converge in the future and could interest bioterrorists Computer hackers could create malicious software that ...

A Minnesota teenager was arrested Friday, accused of disseminating a version of "Blaster." But investigators scrambling to trace that infection, along with "Sobig" and other computer viruses face a ...

Two Internet viruses have seriously strained Georgetown’s computer network in the last two weeks. The two viruses, or “worms,” the W32.Blaster.Worm and W32.SoBig, surpassed the most recent security ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - A new virus that holds computer information ransom and charges a retrieval fee has hit Yakima County government offices. Since surfacing Tuesday morning, the virus has been removed ...

A computer virus that demands a ransom -- and claims to be from the F.B.I -- has tech experts on high alert. It goes by many names, ransom ware, F.B.I money pac, extortion ware, but the end result is ...

Believed to be the first virus released into the wild, the Elk Cloner reflected the camp spirit of the frontier days of computing in the early '80s. It was written by 15-year-old prankster Rich ...

Computer hackers could create malicious software that crosses the line from technology to biology, crafting viruses that could spread dangerous epidemics, researchers said at Black Hat Europe. “We are ...