Group Says Giant Worm Must Be Protected
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By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS  SPOKANE, Wash. - It's 3 feet long, pinkish in color, smells like a lily and must be saved from extinction, conservationists said Thursday in asking the federal government to protect the Giant Palouse Earthworm under the Endangered Species Act.
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It has all the makings of a potential rangeland disaster &#151; thousands of acres of green grass, herds of cattle, antelope and other animals that need to eat versus an emerging army of spiky caterpillars with voracious appetites. But ranchers are hopeful their quick action will take care of the caterpillars &#151; also known as range worms &#151; before they can wreak havoc on pastures in northeastern New Mexico.
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A new method to detect and help stop worm attacks being developed by researchers at Penn State University is using the speed of connections to detect the attacks. The system also uses other algorithms to limit the number of false positives
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Many unhappy returns Thursday marked the first anniversary of the infamous Storm Worm. Created by a Russian-based criminal network, the malware rapidly infected millions of PCs in Europe and North America and continues to be a problem.â¦
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A group of Western county commissioners who have problems with the Endangered Species Act has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to have the northern snakehead, an Asian fish that's invaded the East, protected under the act.
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Search site Google has inadvertently helped a worm hit thousands of websites.
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Rick Cotton, of NBC Universal, says they need to in order to protect creators. Law professor Tim Wu says it is like helping farmers hurt by cheap imports by regulating airplanes.
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Thai researchers have urged people in  Southeast Asia to stop eating raw freshwater fish because they  risk becoming infected with a parasitic worm that may  predispose them to developing liver cancer.
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It's not a treatment for the  faint-hearted or squeamish but scientists said on Tuesday that  worms could be a new treatment for a bowel disease.
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A &quot;modest&quot; number of PCs have been hit, but security-firm execs are focused more on just how fast the new worm appeared.
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New version of mass-mailing worm, discovered Friday, tries to disable defenses on destination PCs.
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A new worm has been discovered in the wild that&#39;s not just settling for invading users&#39; PCs--it wants to invade their homes, too.
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Search engine's actions should halt the worm's spread, antivirus vendors say.
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The Zafi.d worm seems to have done its worst, security experts said Friday, but they urged users to remain on guard through the holidays for more seasonal shenanigans.
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Attackers could exploit this vulnerability to create a self-replicating worm attack. No attack code has yet been found in the wild, but users are cautioned to patch as soon as possible.
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HELSINKI - Internet security experts are warning about a mass-mailing worm with the subject line &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; or &quot;Happy Holidays.
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Web site visitors who clicked on banner ads on a number of popular European Web sites this weekend could have infected their computers with variants of the Bofra worm, experts warned on Monday.