In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age.

When the mapping of the human genome was completed in 2003, researchers discovered a shocking fact: our bodies are littered with the shards of retroviruses, fragments...

Tracing the origins of viruses is difficult because they don’t leave fossils and because of the tricks they use to make copies of themselves within the cells...

From iPods to navigation systems, some of today’s hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory _ pre-installed viruses...

Researchers who study the wilderness of heat-loving bacteria that thrives in Yellowstone’s hot springs are starting to pay more attention to the even smaller...

Viruses have been the major life threatening microorganisms since time immemorial. All viruses are infective unlike all bacteria that can also be beneficial. Viruses...

With the aim of tightening cyber security, the department of information technology (DIT) has planned to bring about new strategies, which will plant baits in cyber...

Now, medical gadgets are going design conscious too. Patrick Gunther’s nDoo concept device reveals the use of hypothetical nanotechnology after forty years from...

Panda Software’s weekly report claims to have identified the Banker.FLO & TnegA.A Trojans, the IrcBot.AIV worm & the WKSSVC hacking tool. All of these...

Avalanche Technology Group, the Australian/New Zealand distributor of AVG security software, recently announced the introduction of AVG Rescue CD, the latest offer for...

European-based Steganos, the leading supplier of security and privacy software for consumers and SMEs, has come on the board with the release of its latest Internet...

The growing popularity of sites such as YouTube and Revver, which make watching of online videos easier, has opened new doors for the Virus writers. They develop the...

eEye Digital security is launching a free version of its new security software named Blink Personal. It combines multiple applications to protect against theft, worms,...

According to some software experts, no single program is guaranteed to eliminate or spot all offensive or nasty files. Considering the magnitude of spyware, they have...

Hacking, spyware, phishing, viruses, spam, credit card frauds are some well-known cyber crimes. With the invention of new methods in computerdom by the hackers, of...

Childhood leukemia has increased five-fold since the early 1900s! And the scientists are blaming pesticides or chemicals in the environment as the main culprits behind...

A new research has showed that gyms might be the hub of viruses and lethal super bug infections. The bacteria lurk occurred in the sweaty residue left on gym...

An advisory committee of Food and Drug Administration voted 13-0 to approve the safety measures and efficiency of Gardasil, which is a Merck and Co.’s product....

Here is a bad news for the pet-lovers. A recent research says that the pets can be an impending perpetrator for spreading the flu and other infectious diseases. The...

The researchers at Cambridge and Oxford Universities have observed the process on how viruses seize the genetic process of cells. They have claimed to identify the...