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 ...

The researchers behind the Cell paper began by studying the new virus in ways that do not require growing live virus — like ...

Computer users across the U.S. were tricked into sending thousands of dollars when they called a bogus tech support line to ...

A computer virus wreaked havoc on firms around the globe ... “If the NSA has a kill switch for this new malware attack, the NSA should deploy it now,” Lieu wrote in a letter to NSA Director ...

Experts are sounding the alarm about the discovery of a never-before-seen virus in the US which belongs to a deadly family of pathogens. Researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia ...

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 ...

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 ...