NEW YORK -- The continued spread yesterday of a cleverly engineered computer virus exposes a key flaw in the global embrace of technology: Its users are human. Posing ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A new "worm" software program that purports to rid computers of malicious viruses actually leaves the viruses intact and chews up files instead, security experts said Friday. The worm, ...

The Storm Worm’s days may be numbered, according to a University of California researcher. Brandon Enright, a network security analyst at UC San Diego, has been tracking Storm since July and said that ...

Companies and individuals heeded this week's warning -- some may call it "hype" -- about a file-destroying computer worm known as "Kama Sutra," helping minimize its damage Friday, security experts ...

It's being called the worst computer worm of the year -- a fast-spreading Internet threat that looks like an official e-mail from the CIA or FBI but can leave your computer wide open to intruders. The ...

Computer users have been warned that a worm dubbed "my party" has slithered into China but the original source has been decoded. The worm -- a computer program that propagates itself over a network -- ...

A bogus Microsoft Corp. security alert is apparently being used by crafty hackers to spread the latest version of a computer worm on the Internet. In an announcement on its Symantec Antivirus Research ...

The Conficker computer worm, a worldwide infection that could activate today, could be as harmless as April Fool's or as serious as robbery. The worm that already has wiggled into unprotected ...

With the discovery of Stuxnet, a computer worm believed to have been developed by the US government to shut down a nuclear plant in Iran, European companies like Siemens are coming under increased ...