COMMENTARY--Worms and viruses often target specific vulnerabilities in common software. But what if the terms were reversed? Rather than attacking the vulnerability of software for malicious purposes, ...

Our world is full of bizarre and intriguing creatures. One of the strangest, though, is the hairworm, a parasitic worm known as a "mind control worm" in some circles. These parasitic worms are found ...

Concerns over the latest potentially high-profile Internet worm attack seem to have been allayed this week, as security vendors, their partners and customers seem better prepared than usual to deal ...

This is the hairworm, which is sometimes called the mind-control worm. It gets inside of larger creatures and controls their brains, but now researchers have found another trait that is unlike ...

ISPs around the world are being attacked by self-replicating malware that can take complete control of widely used wireless networking equipment, according to reports from customers and a security ...