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 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 ...
~ 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 ...
NEW YORK What began as a ninth-grade prank has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal-computer virus. Although over the next 25 years, Skrenta started the ...
In 2025, computer viruses are getting smarter! Hackers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to create tricky emails that ...