An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A computer worm is a form of malware that, once it has infected a computer, continues to replicate itself on the infected computer as well as ...

For the past three years, a highly encrypted computer worm called Conficker has been spreading rapidly around the world. As many as 12 million computers have been infected with the self-updating worm, ...

You’d think keeping things secure would be easy, with artificial intelligence getting sharper every day. I mean, if it can crank out intricate code in no time, fending off cyber crooks should be a ...

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 week, ...

Uncertainty surrounded the notorious computer worm Tuesday, the day before it was set to activate on potentially millions of machines. Yet computer professionals, including Gavin Manes, founder of ...

The silver anniversary of the first PC virus is approaching in January, but even after 25 years, no victory celebration is on the horizon. That first virus, distributed on a 5 1/4 floppy disk, was ...

As every year since 1988, 30 November marks International Information Security Day – or Computer Security Day – an initiative ...

Can malware kill? It can cause massive damages that on a dramatic day might lead you to say something like, “This %*^@# is killing me!” Computer viruses can also induce those feelings, because you ...

The mass-mailing worm, called Avril or Lirva, spreads via e-mail and also through ICQ, Kazaa and mIRC, according to F-Secure. The worm also tries to spread through open shares and Windows network ...

Estimates of the number of computers infected with the Conficker worm run from 1 million to 12 million. The malware's deadline is April 1, 2009, but no one really knows what will actually happen to ...

In what is believed to be the first of its kind, a new nondestructive computer worm has been found that apparently can e-mail itself out in either English or Japanese, depending on the native language ...