Security experts warned on Thursday the fast-spreading MyDoom virus would plague e-mail users for some time as it counts down to a mammoth digital attack next week on Microsoft and software firm SCO ...

A fatal virus has reportedly been discovered in shrews in Alabama, sparking concerns about potential contagion to humans. The Camp Hill virus — thought to be the first "henipavirus" in North ...

The Minnesota man who unleashed a malicious variant of the MS Blaster computer worm last summer will likely spend 18 to 37 months in prison as part of a plea agreement signed yesterday in U.S ...

After Microsoft released security updates, security researchers quickly saw the potential for this bug to be exploited in widespread attacks, similar to what we saw with the 2003 Blaster worm and ...

The worm replicated itself by sending a copy of the ILOVEYOU email to the first 500 contacts in the victim’s address book. ‘Hex dump of the Blaster worm, showing a message left for Microsoft ...

The worm, according to OpenSource Security, has the capability to autonomously search for and spread between networked programmable logic controllers (PLCs). PLC-Blaster was designed to target ...

The worm, detailed at the recent Black Hat Asia conference by researchers from OpenSource Security, is dubbed “PLC-Blaster” and it’s designed to target Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200v3 controllers. Building ...

The Blaster Worm, a vicious computer virus created by an 18-year-old hacker, infected hundreds of thousands of Microsoft computers back in 2003. Now, the worm has made a comeback with a new music ...

Ten years ago this week, the Blaster worm swept through Windows XP and Windows 2000 networks, bringing some government agencies to a halt and perhaps contributing to a major power blackout in the ...

This marks the first time since April 2007 that Microsoft has released a fix outside of its normal Patch Tuesday cycle; it wa s sparked by lessons learned from worm epidemics like Blaster and ...