NEW YORK — What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practical jokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to ...

The first virus to hit computers running Microsoft Corp.'s operating system came in 1986, when two brothers in Pakistan wrote a boot sector program now dubbed "Brain" - purportedly to punish people ...

Do Mac computers get viruses? The Newton Virus, which circulated on YouTube in early 2008, reminds us that Mac malware does exist. Created by the contemporary art group Troika as a social experiment, ...

It was an email that had an executable. when you clicked on it, a little box popped up that said, "are you sure you want to erase all the information on your computer? (or something like that)... and ...