This week in 1988, Cornell graduate student Robert Tappan Morris unleashed his eponymous worm upon the Internet. The wave of infections grew to 10% of the entire Internet within 24 hours, causing ...

Microsoft Corp. blunted an expected attack on its Web site yesterday by shutting down the targeted Web page and increasing its ability to handle large amounts of traffic. Those steps, and presumably ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today the release of a DHS-developed detection tool that can be used by the federal government, commercial vendors, state and local governments ...

A computer worm that infiltrated hundreds of thousands of computers last month is expected to awaken tomorrow, destroying documents and files on infected machines and networks, Microsoft Corp. and ...

The Conficker computer worm, a worldwide infection that could activate today, could be as harmless as April Fool's or as serious as robbery. The worm that already has wiggled into unprotected ...

The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday -- April Fools' Day. That's when many of ...

Uncertainty surrounded the notorious computer worm Tuesday, the day before it was set to activate on potentially millions of machines. Yet computer professionals, including Gavin Manes, founder of ...

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DETROIT -- A computer worm temporarily halted production at 13 of DaimlerChrysler AG's U.S. plants this week, but the company says the damage was minimal and it expects to make up the lost production.

The computer worm responsible for the biggest attack in years has infected at least one out of every 16 PCs worldwide, a security company said today, and it may have managed to compromise as many as ...

The man on trial for writing the Sasser computer worm, which wreaked havoc in big businesses and homes across the world last year, has confessed to all the charges against him, a German court said ...