Hackers often use current events and compelling verbiage to get people to open emails, download attachments or tap links. Since coronavirus is hot a topic, it's no surprise that bad actors would ...

The first ever computer virus was a worm, dubbed the Morris Worm, which caused havoc by infecting 6,000 computers in 1988, a few years before '90s movies started obsessing over viruses and hacking.

The Conficker computer worm put the world on edge, threatening machines that run Microsoft Windows. Here's a list of some of the most famed computer hackers since the invention of the first virus.

How do hackers get access to your computer? Hackers have many tricks up their sleeves. Viruses and malicious software, aka malware, make the most of security gaps, but something called social ...

An emerging breed of computer virus that keeps hackers informed about the latest weaknesses in computer networks has been discovered by security experts. The viruses infect a network, scan for ...

A 33-year-old man from China was arrested in Italy at the request of United States officials, who charged him with allegedly ...

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with 16 year-old computer programmer Aaron Swartz about hacker culture. Swartz explains what motivates an anonymous hacker to creative destructive viruses, and why the ...

Whether a hacker uses a computer exploit or malware, their motivations are the same. Understanding why and how hackers hack is key to your defense.

Computer hackers could create malicious software that crosses the line from technology to biology, crafting viruses that could spread dangerous epidemics, researchers said at Black Hat Europe.

In that spirit, here are 12 computer hacking myths that need to be put to bed. Hacking takes minutes. ... Antivirus software would have you believe it's a shield against hackers' viruses.

In a windowless computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke ...

A virus that infects major freshwater bacteria appears to use stolen bits of immune system DNA to highjack their hosts' immune response. Microbiologists have discovered that the virus, Cyanophage ...