An ominous computer worm today could cause major network outages, siphon personal information from millions and attack government networks. Skip to Article. Set weather.

A computer worm is a type of malware that, once it infects a machine, can automatically copy and extend itself to connected devices. An icon in the shape of a person's head and ...

A computer-science detective story is playing out on the Internet as security experts try to hunt down a worm called Conficker C and prevent it from damaging millions of computers on April Fool's Day.

Stuxnet is a powerful computer worm designed by U.S. and Israeli intelligence that to disable a key part of the Iranian nuclear program. Targeted at an air-gapped facility, it unexpectedly spread ...

Security researchers are tracking holiday attacks by the Storm Worm, a particularly insidious piece of computer malware that has been circulating around the world for about a year. Earlier this ...

A destructive computer worm spread by e-mail and dubbed Bugbear.b proliferated across the Internet yesterday, grabbing and sending out confidential messages from victim's e-mail folders and ...

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 ...