Zombie ants controlled by fungus

In a bizarre parasitic death sentence, a fungus turns carpenter ants into the walking dead and gets them to die in a spot that's perfect for the fungus to grow and reproduce.

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Anti-theft software could create security hole

A piece of anti-theft software built into many laptops at the factory opens a serious security hole, according to research presented Thursday.

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As flu virus spreads, solid details get out slower

Parents wondered who to blame when two neighboring schools in their small central Minnesota town closed because one school had a probable case of swine flu.

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Bazell answers your swine flu questions

As the World Health Organization signaled an increase of swine flu, msnbc.com readers expressed worries about travel to Mexico — where the outbreak is most severe — and other dangers from the disease.

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MIT Researcher 'Paints' Cyber Threats

Cyber threats like NetSky, Mydoom and Parite are the bane of IT departments around the globe, but artist Alex Dragulescu has found subtle beauty deep within the dangerous computer code that can bring down networks and bombard e-mail inboxes with murderous spam.

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Game Review: Trilogy of Terror

How will you survive the inevitable zombie apocalypse? After 40 years of zombie movies, from "Night of the Living Dead" to "28 Days Later," your first line of defense should be clear: Don't get infected. Then run.

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Staph Infections Rise Among Athletes

Brian Russell had no idea what hit him. A guy who routinely tackles 250-pound running backs head-on and occasionally gets pulverized by rampaging 350-pound NFL linemen for a living nearly saw his season end because of a microscopic germ. The Cleveland Browns safety was flattened by a staph infection that hospitalized him during the preseason.

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An HIV-positive husband injected his wife with his contaminated blood while she slept, infecting her with the virus so that they would be 'equals' and she would start having sex with him again.

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A 22-year man was hospitalized Sunday with an infection caused by the same deadly amoeba that killed three Central Florida boys in 2007, according to the Orange County Health Department.

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The anti-virus and all-round internet prophylactic company Symantec has just released its latest chart of the 100 most dangerous sites on the internet, sites so infected with viruses, Trojans and just plain badness that even dipping a metaphorical toe in one might mean you never  …

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For the past couple weeks, Twitter has come under attacks that besieged it with more traffic than it could handle. Now comes evidence that the microblogging website is being used to feed the very types of infected machines that took it out of commission.

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Scientists in the United States have decoded the overall structure of the HIV virus genome that causes AIDS in humans, according to a study published Thursday. More Articles

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This article discuses and speculates about the Conficker worm.

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Experts have identified a highly contagious and lethal new viral disease, which infected five people in Southern Africa. With some similarities to Ebola, the so-called Lujo virus may have passed to people from rodents. More Articles

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Computer-virus infections don't cause your machine to crash anymore.

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Excerpt: The frozen remains of two lab mice infected with deadly strains of plague were lost at a bio-terror research facility at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark -- the same high security lab where three infected mice went missing four years ago.

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A virus is playing havoc with the municipal court operations in Houston. The court system had to close down Friday afternoon after a computer virus affected access to data on court cases. Courtroom operations aren't expected to be back in business before Thursday morning.

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The last place anyone would expect to face a computer security attack is on the windshield of their car in the form of a parking ticket.

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A new sleeper virus that could allow hackers to steal financial and personal information has now spread to more than eight million computers in what industry analysts say is one of the most serious infections they have ever seen.

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The major press outlets are abuzz this morning with news of a major new security flaw that affects all versions of Internet Explorer from IE5 to the latest beta of IE8. The attack has serious and far-reaching ramifications -- and they're not just theoretical attacks.

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Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole has been diagnosed with hepatitis C, her publicist said in a statement Wednesday.

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A group of prostitutes thought to be immune to HIV have now become infected, causing dismay to scientists hoping to develop an Aids vaccine.

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Gartner predicts that by year-end 75% of enterprises "will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded traditional perimeter and host defenses," and early reports from beta customers of a yet to be released product from Mi5 show how nefarious  …

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The virus that ate the Dulles Hilton Egads. First it was the return of bedbugs to hotels posh and humble. Now it's the stomach-turning norovirus, best known for infecting cruiseship vacationers.

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A man in Spain has his amputated arm attached to his groin.

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Apple said the virus got on to the gadgets via a Windows PC in the manufacturing line of one company that makes iPods.

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Man Accused Of Not Disclosing HIV To Fiancee A city worker in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., was arrested after being accused of failing to tell his fiance that he was infected with HIV before they had sex and she was diagnosed with the disease, according to a Local 6 News report.

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The first podcast in the series since December 23, 2005. It has been long awaited by fans.

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