A tech support rep calls and offers to fix a computer bug you haven't even noticed, or a pop-up warning appears on the screen, instructing you to dial a number for help. In this con, scammers pose as ...

The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and other organizations released a report on Thursday, revealing how the US uses technological hegemony to harvest global virtual currency assets.

A new computer virus, first detected on Thursday, is already making its way around the globe, infecting computers at major corporations and government agencies as well as home users. A new virus ...

Online investigators say malicious software and computer code could be lurking on computers before the bubble wrap even comes off You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

“Antivirus companies scrambled to protect their customers against a new computer virus, dubbed ‘Goner,’ which surfaced Tuesday, deleting system files and clogging networks across the globe,” says a ...

35 years ago, the first piece of malware to ever spread out in the wild came into existence. Dubbed “Elk Cloner” and created by a 15-year old programmer named Rich Skrenta, Elk Cloner was a boot ...

A new cyber surveillance virus has been found in the Middle East that can spy on financial transactions, e-mail and social networking activity, according to a leading computer security firm, Kaspersky ...

On January 19, 1986, the world became aware of what is widely regarded as the first major computer virus to spread globally: Brain. While earlier experimental self-replicating programs had existed, ...

Tim Hortons's business has been disrupted in the past week by a cash-register computer virus that has affected hundreds of its restaurants across the country and forced some to close intermittently or ...

TORONTO – Researchers at the University of Liverpool have created an “airborne” computer virus that can move through busy networks as easily as the common cold spreads between humans. The virus dubbed ...