What is going on this month? Did I miss the memo proclaiming August “Worm Month”? Last week it was Blaster and this week we’ve got the Nachi/Wechia virus (the anti-Blaster) and the return of Sobig, ...
Jeffrey Lee Parson was barely 18 years old and dealing with some personal problems when he launched a variant of the Blaster worm that infected more than 48,000 computers worldwide. On Friday, a ...
A Minnesota teenager will appear in federal court in St. Paul Friday to face charges stemming from the release of a variant of the virulent W32.Blaster Internet worm that ravaged computer systems ...
A week after the debut of the virulent e-mail virus known as Sobig.F, college-network administrators are still working overtime to shore up their defenses against it and two fast-spreading Internet ...
the Scenario: my mom just called, and she's suddenly having serious trouble booting - and when she does boot sucessfully, she's been looking at semi-frequent lockups that force her to do a hard reboot ...
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- The FBI on Friday arrested Jeffrey Lee Parson for developing and releasing a variant of the "Blaster" virus over the Internet that infected thousands of computers this month. At ...
The problem highlights the need for enterprises to understand the functional behavior of existing networked business applications and specifically to inventory their port usage. The Blaster worm took ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The past two weeks have been a challenge for small business owners, particularly if their computers run on Windows XP software or they're located in the Northeast or southern Canada.
Security experts today warned of the first self-propagating virus to take advantage of a widespread vulnerability reported last month in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating systems. Known by various ...
Customers that wish to sign up for early-access registration for Project Mad Hatter can contact [email protected], according to Sun. In a press release, Sun Executive Vice President of Software ...
WASHINGTON — A computer virus yesterday disabled a portion of the State Department’s domestic enterprise network, forcing the agency to halt overseas screenings of visa applicants for criminal ...
The U.S. Department of State struggled Tuesday to quell an outbreak of the W32.Welchia Internet worm on the department’s computer systems. The worm infestation slowed e-mail systems at the massive ...