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 ...

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One such tool is LitterDrifter, a computer worm written in Visual Basic Scripting language. LitterDrifter's primary functions include spreading from USB drive to USB drive and permanently ...

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 ...

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 ...

All in all, it’s rather amusing that the world’s first computer virus that proliferated outside the confines of a research lab was nothing more than a fun teenage prank, a stark contrast to ...

He had heard about this type of computer virus and how dangerous it could be. But he never thought that he would be tricked into clicking on a wrong link. Now, as he read the ransom note ...

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 ...

That worm, now known as the Morris worm ... Like Swartz who came after him, Morris performed his alleged computer crime at the MIT campus and not his own school -- a move ostensibly designed ...