Creeper. To be 100% fair to Bob Thomas, the first computer virus, known as Creeper, wasn’t sent with any malicious intent. Instead, it was mostly a case of experimentation in whether or not code ...

On February 13, 2006, a screenshot of Apple's upcoming Mac OS X Leopard leaked through iChat. Those who opened the attached ...

The first computer virus was named Creeper, created in 1971 by Robert Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies (Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., which later became part of Raytheon).

Cybersecurity architect and adjunct professor at NC State University Jeff Crume joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the history of hacking. What was the first computer virus?