In the realm of technology, the term “virus” often conjures images of chaos and disruption. Yet, the origin of these digital ...

In 2024, the idea of a computer virus is nothing new, as these computer threats are, unfortunately, common enough. When it comes to cybersecurity, the idea of a computer virus is a major concern.

The Internet has been abuzz lately claiming we are in the 25th year of the computer virus. And while many people believe a 15-year-old created the first virus in 1982, I'm not so quick to agree.

The first computer virus was created in 1982 by Rich Skrenta, who was 15 at the time and only wanted a way to share computer games with friends. He wrote a program called Elk Cloner that could be ...

The first computer virus was named Creeper, created in 1971 by Robert Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies (Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., which later became part of Raytheon).. Unlike the ...

How two Pakistani brothers and one piece of runaway code created the anti-virus industry. It was early 1987, and security expert Roger Thompson had just seen his first computer virus, in a ...

Most computer viruses today operate with the sole purpose of making money; ... Consider the first computer virus, Cookie Monster. Created in the late 1960s, the virus was mostly harmless.

The suicide of 26-year-old Aaron Swartz has spurred calls to reform the federal anti-hacking law used to prosecute him for illegally downloading millions of academic articles at the MIT campus ...

A researcher has created a computer reconstruction of a virus, including its complete native genome. Although other researchers have created similar reconstructions, this is believed to be the ...

Kovah's worm virus was the first to attack Macs at the firmware level, according to Wired, which means it targeted the software that boots up before the computer's primary operating system, OS X.