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 ...

You’d think keeping things secure would be easy, with artificial intelligence getting sharper every day. I mean, if it can ...

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 ...

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 ...

A notorious group of Russian state hackers, known by various names such as Gamaredon, Primitive Bear, ACTINIUM, Armageddon, and Shuckworm, has expanded its cyber espionage activities beyond Ukraine.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. 35 years ago, the first piece of malware to ever spread out in the wild came into ...

The suicide of 26-year-old Aaron Swartz has spurred calls to reform the federal anti-hacking law used to prosecute him for illegally downloading millions of academic articles at the MIT campus.