"We're nowhere near ready for a world in which artificial intelligence can create a working virus." The post Experts Alarmed ...

Picture this: a computer sitting in a lab, essentially “thinking up” brand new forms of life from scratch. That’s exactly ...

Many students will not be saying "I love you" to their computers this Valentine's Day, as a slew of computer viruses have wrecked havoc on the Tufts campus this past week. Hundreds of students have ...

A group of Stanford bioengineers claim that they've created synthetic bacteriophages using AI-generated designs that not only ...

Your computer has been acting strange lately — running slower than usual, showing weird pop-ups, or behaving in ways that make you suspicious something isn’t right. These could be signs that malware, ...

The study of computer virus propagation models is central to understanding and mitigating digital epidemics that disrupt modern network infrastructures. Researchers have adopted a range of techniques, ...

Can malware kill? It can cause massive damages that on a dramatic day might lead you to say something like, “This %*^@# is killing me!” Computer viruses can also induce those feelings, because you ...

For Stu Garrison, it could have gone either way. The Jackson, Mo., insurance agent received an e-mail from someone he corresponds with electronically, warning him that a computer virus may have been ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) ...

A new e-mail virus written to take advantage of Microsoft Corp.’s Outlook software is circulating among users today, preying upon people’s attraction to tennis star and model Anna Kournikova. Security ...