It has been said that we’re all but food for the worms. In the rush to create a worldwide network, we have once again rendered ourselves food for worms, albeit an entirely different kind of worm, in a ...

A slow response from the FBI to Saturday’s outbreak of a virulent new computer worm may have been the result of the recent government reorganization creating the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...

our ability to protect the Net. the heart of the Internet were affected Saturday by what experts are calling the worst worm since Code Red in 2001. A worm that attacks Microsoft's database software ...

While organizations around the world this week scrambled to disinfect and patch systems that had been hit by the dangerous new W32.Blaster Internet worm, John Halamka could sit back and relax. “I’m ...

Cash machines froze. Airlines and hospitals dusted off paper forms to schedule reservations and track patients. This was the scene on Jan. 25, 2003, shortly after the Slammer worm appeared and quickly ...

Effects of the "slammer" worm were felt in Western New York. Four or five machines at the University at Buffalo were infected, out of dozens that were potentially vulnerable to the attack, said ...

The company offers a trio of software utilities to help systems administrators check the SQL Server 2000 database for the Slammer worm and to address vulnerabilities. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...