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 ...

The word 'virus' gets tossed around a lot. Here's what actually counts, what to watch for, and how to stay two clicks ahead ...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Although one employee likened it to winning the lottery, workers at Semo.net won't be receiving any cash for their role in outing a new and previously undiscovered variant of a ...

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

What a busy couple of weeks for technicians and IT departments across the country. Between the Blaster and Sobig worms — a name for a kind of Internet software attack similar to a virus — havoc was ...

This past week computers around the world were attacked and hassled by the Sasser worm, the latest in a series of attacks that have plagued computers in 2004, among them the MyDoom worm and variants ...

LEWISBURG — A computer “worm” knocked out nearly 20 percent of Evangelical Community Hospital’s administrative computers Thursday. The files affected by the virus reportedly did not involve clinical ...

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.

Security researchers are tracking holiday attacks by the Storm Worm, a particularly insidious piece of computer malware that has been circulating around the world for about a year. Earlier this week, ...

TEHRAN - Iran suspects that a foreign organization or nation designed "Stuxnet," a quickly mutating computer worm that has been infiltrating industrial computer systems in the Islamic republic, a high ...