One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

Researchers at Umeå University show how tick-borne viruses remodel human cells into virus factories, using an advanced ...

New research suggests quantum computers capable of breaking internet encryption may arrive sooner than expected—with AI ...

Antivirus software is only one part of protecting our phones and laptops. You'll need a combination of tools to improve your ...

Mikko Hyppönen is one of the most recognizable faces of the cybersecurity industry. After fighting computer viruses, worms, ...

A Charlotte man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for participating in a multi-million-dollar, international tech scam that mostly targeted elderly victims with fake online pop-up ads, federal ...

A virus that originated in a type of fruit bat has been identified in India, spurring protective public health measures across that country. The Nipah virus is a potentially lethal disease that has ...

Researchers from Chiba University have developed a lightweight peer-selection algorithm that significantly reduces data propagation delays without increasing resource usage on internet of things (IoT) ...

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

After 33 years, Bernardo Quintero decided it was time to find the person who changed his life — the anonymous programmer who created a computer virus that had infected his university decades earlier.

The digital world is always changing, and so are the ways people try to break into it. It feels like every year, there’s some new kind of computer virus new threat popping up. 2025 is shaping up to be ...