The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it was easy enough: Open a Terminal shell, paste some commands from GitHub, watch characters ...

A worm is a form of malware (malicious software) that operates as a self-contained application and can transfer and copy itself from computer to computer. It’s this ability to operate autonomously, ...

In a bold move, a group of hackers launched a successful attack on the Web server of Russian computer security company Kaspersky Labs Ltd., managing to implant and distribute a copy of the recently ...