Antivirus software vendor Kaspersky is launching an international effort to try to crack the encryption used in a "blackmailer" virus that locks up data on a victim's computer. The company announced ...

Should laws be applied to disseminating functional virus code? A January 1993 discussion in the NCSA (National Computer Security Association, later ICSA and then TruSecure) section on the CompuServe ...

Symantec is investigating claims by a group of hackers that they are in possession of source code for its Norton AntiVirus (NAV) product. The group, which uses the name “The Lords of Dharmaraja,” ...

The University of Calgary is getting a lot of attention these days. The school is offering a course on how to write computer viruses and malware. Story after story has been published in recent days ...