Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...

Research transforms understanding of disease emergence and identifies new strategies for agricultural virus surveillance in ...

For billions of years, bacteria have waged an ongoing arms race against viruses, evolving many defense mechanisms against the infectious invaders. Now, these evolutions may offer innovative ways for ...

Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge and trigger a new outbreak years later. How do they survive? And how can ...

Internet users are also threatened by so-called deepfakes. These are, for example, videos with well-known personalities, such ...

Malware includes viruses, worms, adware, spyware, and ransomware — they all work differently but tend to cause similar ...

Officials with the World Health Organization are alerting the public to a potential revival of epidemic proportions. New reports show the chikungunya virus is spreading outside of its typical ...

WASHINGTON — A computer crash and a pop up message led to a D.C. woman losing out on more than $640,000 through gold coins and wire transfers, the Metropolitan Police Department said on Wednesday. A ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

Your computer has been acting strange lately — running slower than usual, showing weird pop-ups, or behaving in ways that make you suspicious something isn’t right. These could be signs that malware, ...

Two young elephants at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Sanjay and Kabir, have overcome a deadly virus thanks to a new vaccine introduced to zoos nationwide last year. Sanjay and Kabir are ...