Software was used to replace standard online ads with ones that the defendants could profit from. The top image shows a Web site as seen on an unaffected computer; the bottom one has been infected.
Federal prosecutors charged seven men with orchestrating a vast Internet scheme that infected more than 4 million computers with malicious software and generated profits through online advertisements.
New apps offer possibilities to the cook that would be impossible with a laptop, let alone a book.
Several members of the United States Supreme Court questioned law enforcement’s use of high-tech devices to trail people in cars.
An Institute of Medicine report recommended that an independent agency investigate deaths and injuries related to poorly designed, hard-to-use computerized health records.
November 9, 2011
Adobe announced Wednesday that it is killing Flash for mobile devices and will instead focus its efforts on HTML5 for mobile developers.
November 9, 2011
In a Pew Research Center survey, 88 percent of teenagers said they had witnessed "people being mean or cruel" online, and one in five admitted to having joined in on the cruelty. One in four said an online squabble resulted in a face-to-face argument or worse.
November 9, 2011
Trada, which crowdsources search engine ads, now does the same for social networking ads, which it says will change the future of search.
The Federal Communications Commission is hoping to close the digital divide by developing cheap high-speed Internet access for low-income households.
As the company struggled to contain a scandal over payments made to cover losses on investments on Wednesday, its stock fell another 20 percent.
Yelp, the online reviews site for local businesses, has turned to Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to lead its initial public offering, according to people briefed on the situation.
Researchers are trying to build the Babbage Analytical Engine, a room-size machine designed by Charles Babbage in the 1830s that uses primitive punch cards.
The revelation that more than $1 billion in merger payouts were used to hide losses could make the Olympus scandal one of the biggest cases of accounting fraud in corporate history.
Barnes & Noble has introduced a new color tablet as it competes with Amazon’s Kindle Fire for buyers during the holiday shopping season.
One of Procter and Gamble’s oldest and best-known brands gets new packaging, advertising and a Facebook page.
The electronics retailer reached a deal with Carphone Warehouse of Britain to take full ownership of a fast-growing American cellphone joint venture.
The creator of Second Life built the software for his new work exchange site, Coffee and Power, by hiring programmers from around the world and dividing up the work into small tasks.
Jawbone offers the Up wristband, which monitors your sleep and activities and also provides a visual record of your habits.
Claire Cain Miller discusses the recent update to the Google TV software and Nick Wingfield reports on user complaints about the battery life of the iPhone 4S.
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