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 worm has been aided by increased Internet traffic in the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks, computer security experts said. Overloaded telephone circuits have forced millions of Americans to ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- A pesky computer worm snarled hundreds of thousands of machines worldwide Monday in the latest virus-like outbreak to take advantage of a known flaw with the Windows operating system.

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.

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 ...

OLYMPIA -- The state Department of Revenue's computer network fell victim to an Internet worm this week. The statewide system has been down since Monday morning but no confidential taxpayer data was ...