This winter’s perfect storm of viruses is putting unprecedented strain ... accounting for a whopping 4.8% of all emergency room visits. That’s significantly higher than usual for this time ...

Weekly US influenza surveillance report: key updates for week 1, ending January 4, 2025. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Respiratory virus activity levels. Centers for Disease Control ...

Good morning. I’m Teresa Hanafin, editor of Starting Point. Today I’m putting on my reporting cap to examine four viruses that are making people miserable this winter. You may have heard of th ...

And then came Brain. Discovered in the first weeks of 1986, it was the first PC virus to widely circulate in the wild. Distributed via 5.25-inch floppy diskettes, Brain's spread was extremely slow ...

1. On January 30, 1982, computer programmer Richard Skrenta wrote the world’s first computer virus that ‘escaped’ to other ...

While the first computer virus (Creeper) was released on the ARPANET as a harmless experiment, the first computer virus to be released in the wild didn't have malicious intent either. Called ...

Created by two programmers named Basit and Amjad, Brain was a boot virus that ran when a computer was booted up with an infected floppy diskette in the A: drive. (Remember when floppy disks were ...

The Metropolitan Police Department on May 28 arrested a man on suspicion of creating a computer virus using interactive generative artificial intelligence in a potential ransomware threat to ...

The Cookie Monster virus might be the world's first computer virus; it was created in the 1960s by MIT students to annoy their fellow classmates. The virus freezes everything on the computer ...