POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Although one employee likened it to winning the lottery, workers at Semo.net won't be receiving any cash for their role in outing a new and previously undiscovered variant of a ...

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 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 ...

Computer-security experts working with law enforcement officials in the United States and Canada raced yesterday to contain the Sobig.F computer worm before it could launch a new attack as authorities ...

The Conficker computer worm, a worldwide infection that could activate today, could be as harmless as April Fool's or as serious as robbery. The worm that already has wiggled into unprotected ...

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.

The man on trial for writing the Sasser computer worm, which wreaked havoc in big businesses and homes across the world last year, has confessed to all the charges against him, a German court said ...

The computer worm responsible for the biggest attack in years has infected at least one out of every 16 PCs worldwide, a security company said today, and it may have managed to compromise as many as ...