Although over the next 25 years, Skrenta started the online news business Topix, helped launch a collaborative Web directory now owned by Time Warner Inc.'s Netscape and wrote countless other computer ...

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 ...

Rutherford County man avoids scam after a fake virus alert leads to a fraudulent call claiming a federal arrest warrant.

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 ...

A man uses a laptop at a coffee shop in downtown Hanoi. - AFP A man uses a laptop at a coffee shop in downtown Hanoi. - AFP In 2022, there were over 1.3 billion malware programmes in existence and 10 ...

A random tweet finally put to rest the 20-year mystery of the fake virus that emotionally destroyed me as a child. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The number of hacks has been increasing worldwide. — © AFP/File Noel Celis The number of hacks has been increasing worldwide. — © AFP/File Noel Celis A ...

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 ...