Picture this: a computer sitting in a lab, essentially “thinking up” brand new forms of life from scratch. That’s exactly ...

After scientists showed that AI can design a working virus, it's time to address the obvious: what if it's also used to make ...

Tal Feldman is a student at Yale Law School who formerly built AI and data tools for U.S. government agencies. Jonathan ...

Computer hackers could create malicious software that crosses the line from technology to biology, crafting viruses that could spread dangerous epidemics, researchers said at Black Hat Europe. “We are ...

Billions of dollars are spent every year defending against malicious computer software (malware) and even more money is lost to the damage caused by malware, including computer repairs, productivity ...

A powerful new computer virus that some are calling the "Son of Stuxnet" has been discovered, and researchers are concerned about its potential for attacking critical infrastructure computers around ...

The internet is the most powerful communication tool of modern life, but it is fraught with danger. It seems that for every website with happy cat memes, there is a dangerous digital pathogen looking ...

How two Pakistani brothers and one piece of runaway code created the anti-virus industry. It was early 1987, and security expert Roger Thompson had just seen his first computer virus, in a programming ...