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 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 ...

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.

N E W   Y O R K, July 31 -- Government officials said tonight they had no reports of the "Code Red" computer worm's return, but warned the effects of an attack may not be felt immediately. "It ...

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 ...