Microsoft yesterday confirmed some of its MSN Hotmail servers were infected with a "Code Red" virus, the computer virus that exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft's server systems.

A computer virus is a form of malicious software that piggybacks onto legitimate application code in order to spread and reproduce itself.

Two leading computer security firms have linked some of the software code in the powerful Flame virus to the Stuxnet cyber weapon, which was widely believed to have been used by the United States ...

Computer viruses first emerged on college campuses during the 1960s. At that time, it took months or years to spread. With the advent of email, viruses are now spreading faster than remedies to combat ...

In the eighties, the super nerds were called “Happy Hackers,” mostly eager to score points within the community rather than to steal stuff.

The March Of Computer Viruses Whilst the Code Red worm computer bug has had no immediately visible effect on the internet, security experts have cautioned that the impact of the worm's attack ...

The virus exists as a collection of computer instructions attached to another program, called the host. When the host program runs, the virus code runs first.

Since the Flame computer virus was discovered earlier this week, much attention has been focused on the cleverness of this piece of malicious code. Some online security experts say the fact that ...

Machine code inserted into all email attachments could prevent even the newest viruses from delivering their payloads ...

At a security seminar in 1983, Fred Cohen, a USC graduate student, demonstrated a short program that infected a computer, replicated, and spread to other computers. The way it infected the system was ...