A worm found spreading via America Online's Instant Messenger is carrying a nastier punch than usual, a security company has warned. The unnamed worm delivers a cocktail of unwanted software, ...

The tiny worm C. elegans is the only living being whose neural network has been analyzed completely. It can therefore be transferred to a computer, creating a virtual copy of the worm which behaves in ...

The creators of recent Mytob worm variants have borrowed tricks from phishers to infect more computer users, security experts are warning. The latest Mytob attacks send out an e-mail message that ...

The human brain is an absolute beast of a computer, running on the processing power of 100 billion neurons. Emulating that system could supercharge our supercomputers, but before we can hit those ...

The latest variant of the computer worm Mimail contains a new trick to harvest credit card details – a fake security program that in fact emails the details off to the virus’s creators. The worm is ...