Valeri Aleksejev, 32, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, according to a Reuters report. He faces up to 25 years in prison, deportation and ...

As you read these words, malicious ads on legitimate websites are targeting visitors with malware. But that malware doesn’t infect their computers, researchers said. Instead, it causes unsecured ...

Despite dire warnings, the Internet didn’t break last week when the FBI pulled the plug on the server controlling the DNSChanger botnet. An estimated 300,000 computers are still infected by the ...

Just because there were no major Internet outages this week from the DNSChanger virus, other viruses could attack computers in the future. “Malware gets better, not worse,” warned a recent blog post ...

How much warning is too much warning? At what point does an excess of caution evolve into fear, uncertainty and doubt? That the DNSChanger malware failed to down internet connections across the globe ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Over the past week or two, we've been following the DNSChanger or "Internet Doomsday" saga as the final day approached – today – and now it's time to take a head count for what's actually happened.

Monday, 9 July, was supposed to be ‘Internet Doomsday’ when the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was to shut down servers associated with the DNSChanger malware. As a result, computers ...

ISPs redirected traffic early this week to protect customers from DNSChanger malware, but the move could be seen as just kicking the can down the road The Internet "doomsday virus" that people were ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Now that the feds have cut the lifeline for Internet users infected by the DNSChanger malware, we find that the result of that action wasn’t quite the “Internet doomsday” that some had predicted.

You’re reading this, so it’s safe to say the Internet did not, in fact, shut down today, like it had been predicted to on various news sites over the past week. Just like back in high school, all ...