A scientist at the University of Reading has become the first person in the world to be infected by a computer virus. He contaminated a computer chip which had been inserted into his hand as part of ...

"Computer viruses. We hate 'em. Nevertheless, we remain fascinated by their evil plots. This fascination led to a new kind of art collection," explains Bas van de Poel in the Computer Virus Catalog ...

Founded and curated by Amsterdam-based writer Bas Van de Poel, the Computer Virus Catalog collects the weirdest viruses from the annals of computer history, and visualizes them as art. By pairing a ...

Dec. 4 -- A new computer virus called Goner is spreading through the Internet today. Although not as technically sophisticated as recent worms such as Nimda or Badtrans, experts warn that the rapidly ...

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 ...

I always thought that the oldest people are the group that gets scammed. Certainly not a discerning 65-year-old who has written about scams and wisely deletes suspect emails. Well, add me to the ...