Believed to be the first virus released into the wild, the Elk Cloner reflected the camp spirit of the frontier days of computing in the early '80s. It was written by 15-year-old prankster Rich ...

A Revere man arrived in Essex Wednesday expecting to collect $15,000 in cash from a resident who had been told the payment was needed to remove a virus from his computer, authorities allege. Instead, ...

On the Internet's 40th anniversary, Symantec lists the worst cyber threats. Sept. 3, 2009 — -- This fall marks the 40th birthday of the Internet, and to celebrate it, Symantec, the manufacturer ...

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office says scammers tried to steal close to $20,000 from an elderly couple through a virtual ...

In the most recent Lake Washington School District Connections newsletter, we learned that the district has been waging war with the computer virus that has attacked computers on the district's ...

It's a jungle out there on the Internet. With countless viruses, applets, and attachments on the loose, you might say that the systems designed to protect our computers are facing the kind of ...