This article was originally published by RFID Update. March 15, 2006—Researchers affiliated with the computer science department at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam have released a paper entitled Is ...

Can malware kill? It can cause massive damages that on a dramatic day might lead you to say something like, “This %*^@# is killing me!” Computer viruses can also induce those feelings, because you ...

At an IEEE' conference on pervasive computing in Pisa, Italy, Melanie Rieback, a third-year PhD student at Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit, presented a paper that outlined the threat to RFID systems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), have received reports of recent spam ...

The SoBig.F computer worm that wriggled up on millions of unsuspecting Internet users and crashed thousands of hard drives in the past three weeks seems to have reared its ugly head again. Hundreds of ...

Rather than amateurs working out of their parents' basement, malware creators are often part of an underworld of criminal gang, or working directly for a foreign government or intelligence agency.

What Is a Computer Virus? A computer virus is a program. Like other programs, it’s defined by what it does, and the big thing a virus does is replicate itself. The virus exists as a collection of ...

Years ago, University of Reading professor Kevin Warwick claimed to have become the world’s first cyborg after implanting a functional RFID chip into his arm. Now in a turn of events practically ...