One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called ...

A powerful new computer virus was today causing havoc with e-mail systems across the world. Experts described the virus, called Goner, as one of the fastest-spreading they had yet seen and warned ...

CLICK TO GET KURT’S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER The particular computer worm in question is a type of ...

He had heard about this type of computer virus and how dangerous it could be. But he never thought that he would be tricked into clicking on a wrong link. Now, as he read the ransom note ...

A Dubai man was arraigned and pleaded not guilty in federal court in Charlotte on Friday, accused of stealing $31 million from people across the U.S. by putting fake pop-up virus warnings on their ...

While the first computer virus (Creeper) was released on the ARPANET as a harmless experiment, the first computer virus to be released in the wild didn't have malicious intent either. Called ...

One such tool is LitterDrifter, a computer worm written in Visual Basic Scripting language. LitterDrifter's primary functions include spreading from USB drive to USB drive and permanently ...

All in all, it’s rather amusing that the world’s first computer virus that proliferated outside the confines of a research lab was nothing more than a fun teenage prank, a stark contrast to ...

The first full-stealth computer virus. In 1986, Brain was developed by Pakistani brothers Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who were annoyed at having their heart monitoring software copied for free.

The first computer virus was named Creeper, created in 1971 by Robert Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies (Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., which later became part of Raytheon). Unlike the ...