Latest Computer worm Stories

BitDefender researchers have identified a new wave of spam messages that announce an alleged attack of the US Army against Iran in order to trick users into downloading and installing malicious software onto their personal computers. The webpage hosting the piece of malware -- dailydotnews.com -- is a simple, yet efficiently designed site with a top banner, a simple picture masquerading a YouTube player and three lines of text detailing the US operation in Iran. This spam approach is used on...

By Wendy Leung RANCHO CUCAMONGA - They're squishy. Children love to play with them. And sometimes, they're at the bottom of your tequila. But not often do worms play the central role of a business - unless it's Marcia Iannone's. The Rancho Cucamonga resident, along with her husband Ron, runs a vermiculture compost business from their home, and the slimy, soft- bodied creatures aren't the only things they sell. Touted on their business cards and "wormmobile" is worm poop and worm tea,...

By Wendy Leung Staff Writer RANCHO CUCAMONGA - They're squishy. Children love to play with them. And sometimes, they're in the bottom of your tequila. But not often do worms play the central role of a business - unless it's Marcia Iannone's. The Rancho Cucamonga resident, along with her husband Ron, runs a vermiculture compost business from their home, and the slimy, soft- bodied creatures aren't the only things they sell. Touted on their business cards and "wormmobile" is worm poop...

Employees may be bringing back more than sunburned noses from family vacations this summer. With an increasing number of corporate laptops also serving as the family computer, many employees are letting their children use the company computer to surf the Web, do email and instant messaging, and update their MySpace sites, cautioned Seattle-based Napera Networks today. This is particularly true during summer holidays, when employees try to maximize time with family while still staying in touch...

By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Jun. 29--Say that you're a green-minded apartment or condo dweller striving to live sustainably. You've already minimized your carbon footprint by foregoing the large house and yard that characterizes much of suburbia, but the idea of composting your food scraps seems a little unwieldy. You don't have anywhere to put a composting bin the size of a trash can, much less a garden in which to plow the nutrient-rich product it creates. Plus,...

By Shivani Mody BANGALORE: Organizations typically see infrastructure like PCs, mobiles, pen drives and laptops as security threats that infect the company database and content. But many are now shifting from that approach and looking at end-users as the real threat, finds the latest internet security threat report from Symantec. "Organizations are focussing on information centric security because infrastructure is mostly static, while information is mobile, posing more problems," said...

Here's an idea: Start a project with the kids that will teach them something important about how the Earth sustains itself. Set up a container for vermicomposting. (Yes, this project involves worms. But keep reading.) Vermicomposting turns kitchen waste into compost. You put worms in a container, provide the right environment, then toss your leftovers in with them. And the worms do their job, eating their way through the scraps and, as time goes by, turning all that waste into a nutrient-rich...

By James GrubelCANBERRA -- Australian scientists have begun looking at smell sensors in worms and insects to help them build an electronic "cybernose" they hope will one day be capable of measuring aromas and flavors in wine.An electronic nose might also be used to check passengers for traces of explosives at the final ground check before boarding planes or trains.Head researcher Stephen Trowell said on Friday scientists believe they will be able to artificially copy the way worms...

LAS VEGAS -- Yahoo Inc., the world's largest provider of e-mail services, said on Monday that a software virus aimed at Yahoo Mail users had infected "a very small fraction" of its base of more than 200 million accounts.The e-mail virus, or worm, has been dubbed Yamanner and landed in Yahoo mailboxes bearing the headline "New Graphic Site." Once opened, the message infects the computer and spreads to other users listed in Yahoo users' e-mail address books, security experts...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Versions of Symantec Corp.'s anti-virus business security software contain a flaw that could put millions of computers at risk of a crippling worm attack, Internet experts warned on Friday. Researchers at eEye Digital Security discovered the vulnerability, which they said could allow an attacker to create a worm able to take over a user's computer and destroy critical programs and files. They rated the threat as high because a hacker could exploit the flaw to...