L O N D O N, Aug. 25 -- Children everywhere beware — Pikachu is not as cuddly as he seems. The Japanese Pokémon cartoon character has mutated on theWeb into a nasty little computer-bug ...

In a first for the country, Japan has applied property destruction charges to the creator of a computer virus. 28-year-old Masato Nakatsuji wrote malware known locally as “ika-tako” (squid-octopus) ...

Forty years ago today is considered by many to be the birthday of the first computer virus. Of course, in the early 1970s they weren't called computer viruses, but that doesn't make Bob Thomas's ...

"It was an ingenious, planned crime to spread a computer virus over a long period of time. The defendant committed the crime while he was on probation for a similar charge. I have no choice but to ...

DVD cartoon spreads virus. Careful, there may be a virus on that disk. A computer virus has been spread for the first time by a DVD. The malicious program had been inadvertently included on a recently ...