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 ...

A new computer worm spreading across the Internet captures a user’s keystrokes and creates a back door that could give an attacker access to the infected system or make it possible for the machine to ...

A new variant of the SoBig email worm has stormed computers around the globe to become the fastest spreading virus yet seen, say experts. The reason for SoBig.F’s virulence appears to be a combination ...

A new computer worm, Sobig, is spreading on the Internet, according to alerts posted by a number of antivirus software companies. Sobig uses e-mail and shared network folders to infect machines ...

Update: Added Wikimedia Foundation's statement below and made a correction to denote it was only the Meta-Wiki that was vandalized. The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a ...

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