Scientists are gearing up to scour wilderness areas and remote regions of Earth in an attempt to track down the remaining unknown varieties of viruses that could potentially pose threat to humanity. "Some of these viruses have very limited impact but others can trigger pandemics," said Dr Mark Woolhouse, of Edinburgh University's centre for infectious diseases. "The purpose of this initiative is to identify viruses before they get a ... Read full entry

Now here's something many of us may not take into account when trying to comprehend the, for want of a better word, logic of people who write computer viruses. "Why do people create viruses?". I was excited about answering this question because it is much deeper than most people think. At face value, it is easy to peg viruses as nasty little annoyances designed to wreak havoc on your hard ... Read full entry

MIT researcher "paints" cyber threats Alex Dragulescu loves to give a visual identity to something that has no real physical form; computer viruses... with some rather intriguing, and eye pleasing, results. "I think there is beauty in their complexity," Dragulescu said at a gallery debut of his work in San Francisco. "These types of threats are very smart. Very intelligent in design. Digital organisms, really, that adapt themselves and replicate. We ... Read full entry

Number of computer viruses tops one million Some other interesting statistics have also come to light according to a report on computer security, compiled by Symantec. The US was still by far the greatest contributor to the pool of malicious software infecting the world's computers, accounting for 24 per cent of such activity. Madrid, meanwhile, was the city with the highest number of so-called "zombie" computers - machines that have ... Read full entry