I also know this virus firsthand because, as a 16-year-old high school dropout in the 1990s, it infected me. I had been recruited by Canada’s then-largest white supremacist group, the Heritage ...

In early 2004, a handful of employees worldwide received a strange email with an attachment, marking the start of the fastest-growing computer virus in history. Known as MyDoom (or Novarg), this ...

In 1986, a couple of programmers at a computer shop in Lahore, Pakistan, created an anti-piracy tool that was effectively a boot sector virus. Its code contained the authors' names and addresses.

I just love receiving challenging questions and, often, being given an ‘answer’ is more of an anti-climax than informative. When at school in the mid 60s I remember our physics teacher, Mr ...