1/6 Cookie Monster by Lawrence Slater First coded in 1969, Cookie Monster is considered one of the first computer viruses ever, halting all progress on a given computer until the user typed ...

accused of stealing $31 million from people across the U.S. by putting fake pop-up virus warnings on their computer screens, prosecutors said. Frightened users were tricked into sending hundreds ...

They were almost works of art in their own right. Lawrence Slate, Cookie Monster Consider the first computer virus, Cookie Monster. Created in the late 1960s, the virus was mostly harmless.

The Cookie Monster virus might be the world's first computer virus; it was created in the 1960s by MIT students to annoy their fellow classmates. The virus freezes everything on the computer ...

For at least six months, the virus has replicated among us, with a devastating toll. Yet “We are really early in this disease,” says the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.

The Cookie Monster program was also real. The hackers take over the Gibson computer with a Cookie Monster virus that starts gobbling up all the data. “What do I do?” Hal asks. “Type cookie ...

Last week, state health officials announced the first human case of West Nile virus in California this year: a woman in San Bernardino County who experienced flu-like symptoms, then recovered.

Now computer scientists have done the same with software, demonstrating the potential for hard-to-detect viruses that are ... for Frankenstein to build its monster, but it needs blueprints that ...