The Conficker worm, a nasty computer infection that has poisoned millions of PCs, will start ramping up its efforts Wednesday to use those machines for cybercrimes. It's unclear whether everyday PC ...

A century before the first computer was developed, an Englishwoman named Ada Lovelace laid the theoretical groundwork for an all-purpose device that could solve a host of mathematically-based problems ...

John Blankenbaker made the prototype of the Kenbak-1 personal computer in his garage When the definitive history of the personal computer is written, familiar and historic names such as Olivetti, ...

Richard Skrenta’s “Elk Cloner” was 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program. Described by its author as “some dumb little practical joke,” the virus attached itself to the Apple DOS 3.3 ...