A powerful new computer virus was today causing havoc with e-mail systems across the world. Experts described the virus, called Goner, as one of the fastest-spreading they had yet seen and warned ...

Before that, nuisance virus outbreaks like 2001’s Nimda would quickly infect computers and networks. It didn’t steal anything, just stopped them functioning.

A variant of the Code Red virus, Nimda was an attempt to inflict cyber damage onto a nation already reeling from the attacks. Many systems around the world were impacted by Nimda.

The sophisticated Nimda worm virus that plagued computers around the globe last week did not spare the Tufts network. The virus snaked its way across campus computers primarily through the popular ...

More than 338,000 of them have died. And in the final weeks of 2020, we’ve continued to set new records in cases and deaths. Here’s a look back at how the virus spread → ...

What ranks as history’s most successful malware? For longevity alone, a big contender must be Conficker, a Windows worm that still registers 150,000 infections per month 12 years after its heyday.

This can potentially lead to security and maintenance headaches later, as the Code Red and Nimda worm virus exploits dramatically illustrated.

Nimda utilized four different attack methods—email, file transfers, server vulnerabilities, and shared folders—to become the web’s most widespread virus within 22 minutes.

This being the 40th anniversary of the Internet, Symantec, the manufacturer of computer-security software, has published a list of the top computer worms, viruses, trojan horses, and hoaxes in ...

I just got through reading about another hugely popular, legitimate Web site hosting malicious code that redirects visitors to a malicious Web site. Once redirected, the new Web site runs a fake ...