SAN FRANCISCO -- The worldwide cost of the Code Red worms that crawled rampantly throughout the Internet in July and August has reached about $2.6 billion, an independent research firm said last week.

LONDON -- The spread of the Code Red computer worm showed signs of peaking today, although security experts warned the Information Technology community not to drop its guard. "Basically, it's reaching ...

The Open Worm is a fairly advanced project that aims to build a lifelike copy of a nematode roundworm entirely out of computer code. Last week, the researchers working on the project added code to ...