Cornell graduate student Robert Tappan Morris unleashed his eponymous worm upon the Internet 37 years ago, changing the face of cybersecurity.

The model organism Caenorhabditis elegans may now be able to take a sick day. For the first time in nearly forty years of intense study, scientists have identified two new viruses that can infect the ...

Thirty-seven years ago this week, a Cornell graduate student accidentally brought the early Internet to its knees. Robert ...

Antivirus companies have long cautioned users against opening unexpected e-mail attachments or attachments sent by strangers, but thanks to a new e-mail worm spreading this week, antivirus companies ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), have received reports of recent spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software, known as malware.

The sophisticated Nimda worm virus that plagued computers around the globe last week did not spare the Tufts network. The virus snaked its way across campus computers primarily through the popular ...

Skype users have been hit by a 'worm' used by hackers to distribute trojan horses to PCs. There have been reports of users receiving instant messages saying "lol is this your new profile pic?" which ...

HOUSTON – (Aug. 18, 2014) – Rice University scientists have won a race to find the crystal structure of the first virus known to infect the most abundant animal on Earth. The Rice labs of structural ...

5 years on, 10 years on, 15, 20 - it looks like we'll still be writing about viruses... 11.06.99: A virus which has been described as being "bigger than Melissa" is currently rampaging through ...

A series of arrests in Germany for alleged computer virus creation is likely to deter casual virus writers, but worms and variants continue and the most hardened computer criminals will probably be ...

Computer users have been warned to be on their guard today after a potentially devastating email virus has appeared that is threatening to destroy their computers. Known as Magistr.24876@mm, the ...

Antivirus companies have long cautioned users against opening unexpected e-mail attachments or attachments sent by strangers, but because of a new e-mail worm spreading this week, antivirus companies ...