A computer worm is a type of malware that, once it infects a machine, can automatically copy and extend itself to connected devices. A worm is very similar to a virus, and you can get infected by one ...

This story was written by CNET's Elinor Mills. As expected, the Conficker worm failed to cause the digital pandemonium that some may have feared. So, can we all just go back to playing on Facebook and ...

On Nov. 2, 1988, I was working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the data communications branch. Everything was fine. Then, our internet servers running SunOS and VAX/BSD Unix slowed to a stop.

THE FIRST SURPRISING thing about the worm that landed in Philip Porras’ digital petri dish 18 months ago was how fast it grew. He first spotted it on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. Computer-security experts ...

The Stuxnet computer worm that was used to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program was likely preceded by another sophisticated malware program that used some of the same exploits and spread through USB ...

Dec. 19 -- Computer security experts warn a new holiday-themed computer virus is winding its way through the Internet today. The worm, known by several names including W32.Zacker.C and W32.Maldal.C, ...

Conficker computer worm spreads worldwide, keeps updating. March 25, 2009 — -- Somewhere out there, perhaps in Eastern Europe, perhaps next door to us, a very clever hacker is spreading a ...

Security researchers are racing to head off an Internet worm that is scheduled to phone home for instructions Wednesday, possibly to cause widespread damage. Known as Conficker or Downadup, the worm ...

A computer worm designed to expire within a week has caught the attention of computer experts who fear it may be a prototype for a much nastier specimen. The worm – called Bagle A – spreads as an ...

our ability to protect the Net. the heart of the Internet were affected Saturday by what experts are calling the worst worm since Code Red in 2001. A worm that attacks Microsoft's database software ...

It is not much to look at: the nematode C. elegans is about one millimetre in length and is a very simple organism. But for science, it is extremely interesting. C. elegans is the only living being ...