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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

TEHRAN - Iran suspects that a foreign organization or nation designed "Stuxnet," a quickly mutating computer worm that has been infiltrating industrial computer systems in the Islamic republic, a high ...

OLYMPIA -- The state Department of Revenue's computer network fell victim to an Internet worm this week. The statewide system has been down since Monday morning but no confidential taxpayer data was ...