Thousands of computer users around the world received startling news Wednesday when they tried to search online: their PCs were infected and used by h...

Computer users may see fewer e-mail offers for cheap Viagra and fake Rolexes after security researchers this week helped shut down the world’s third...

Cyber investigators from Microsoft, joined by a team of United States marshals, raided offices in Pennsylvania and Illinois Friday to disrupt a global...

Every month, about four million computers turn into zombies, according to researchers. Unbeknownst to their owners, who have accidentally clicked ...

By Nick Clayton, The Wall Street Journal Last week, Microsoft announced it had shut down the botnet known as Kelihos, Waledac 2.0 or Hlux. The focu...

Every one of us has to be a soldier against spam, bots, and other Internet abuses. You wouldn't leave your doors unlocked at home -- why would you leave your computer open to the world?

Software giant Microsoft Corp has won a U.S. court approval to deactivate a global network of computers that the company accused of spreading spam and...

Microsoft has won a court order to deactivate a "botnet," an army of tens of thousands of PCs around the globe infected with malicious code that allow...

A new type of computer virus is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of pop...

Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.