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 ...

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 ...

~ The growth of the Internet brought a new way to spreak viruses: e-mail NEW YORK -- What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier ...

I infected a humanoid robot with 100 real computer viruses. From fake Fortnite scams to ancient malware, each virus made it ...

What computer user hasn't trembled when reading an e-mail warning of a virus making the rounds? "There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet," a typical message will begin. "If ...

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 ...

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 ...