Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Techbook Reveals the Story of the First Computer Worm Photo: Getty Images Robert Tappan Morris is no stranger. The man works as a ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp. blunted an expected attack on its Web site yesterday by shutting down the targeted Web page and increasing its ability to handle large amounts of traffic. Those steps, and presumably ...

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 ...

A computer worm that infiltrated hundreds of thousands of computers last month is expected to awaken tomorrow, destroying documents and files on infected machines and networks, Microsoft Corp. and ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A computer worm that has infected industrial computers around the world may be part of a campaign targeting nuclear installations in Iran, computer-security researchers said. The highest concentration ...