Such a 'virtual worm' can learn amazing tricks -- its neural network can even be used to balance a pole, which is a standard control problem in computer science.

C. elegans is a worm whose basic brain of only 302 neurons has been digitized. Now researchers have taught this virtual worm a new trick, without writing a single line of code.

AIM worm plays nasty new trick Pest spreading via America Online's network delivers a cocktail of spyware, security company warns. Written by Joris Evers, Contributor Oct. 28, 2005, 2:33 p.m. PT ...

The latest variant of the computer worm Mimail contains a new trick to harvest credit card details – a fake security program that in fact emails the details off to the virus’s creators. The ...

Mike Forster, chief wormer and founder of the International Federation of Charming Worms and Allied Pastimes, reveals how to coax worms out of the ground. The 30th Annual World Worming ...