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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Iran was prime target of SCADA worm The Stuxnet worm affecting supervisory control and data acquisition systems made by Siemens AG may have been spreading since as early as January. Symantec Corp. says most systems affected by the worm are in Iran
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Conficker.E to self-destruct on May 5th? An SRI International researcher says the complexity of Conficker suggests it is a gang-led malware campaign. A SecureWorks malware expert explains why Conficker.E might not work well
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Virus writers getting personal - and petty Not that anybody has ever accused virus writers of being the epitome of maturity, but the war, if it can be called that, between the creators of NetSky and Bagle has gotten personal — in a school yard "I know you are but what am I" kind of way.
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Mydoom knocks SCO offline Living up to its namesake, the Mydoom e-mail borne worm succeeded in bringing sco.com to a grinding halt on Sunday as thousands of infected computers launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the Lindon Utah-based The SCO Group Inc.'s primary Web site. 
Sunday, February 01, 2004
UPDATE: SCO downed by Mydoom Computers infected with the Mydoom worm launched a massive attack against the Web site of Unix software maker The SCO Group Inc. Sunday, cutting off access to the company's Web site. 
Monday, October 13, 2003
New job brings back old problems At 10 a.m., the boss called the entire IT security team into a meeting room, but without the line manager. He said that the line manager had been sacked.
Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Slammer was fastest spreading worm yet A just-completed study into the Slammer worm that hit the Internet a week ago has concluded what many people already suspected: Slammer represented a significant milestone in the evolution of worms and was by far the fastest spreading worm yet seen.
Sunday, February 02, 2003
Study: Slammer was fastest spreading worm yet A just-completed study into the Slammer worm that hit the Internet a week ago has concluded what many people already suspected: Slammer represented a significant milestone in the evolution of worms and was by far the fastest spreading worm yet seen.
Thursday, December 12, 2002
New worm, Winevar, packs a serious punch A new e-mail worm is circulating that has the potential to severely damage machines that it infects, potentially deleting all the files on a computer's hard drive while mocking the machine's owner, according to advisories released by a number of antivirus software makers.
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
New worm, Winevar, packs a punch A new e-mail worm is circulating that has the potential to severely damage machines that it infects, potentially deleting all the files on a computer's hard drive while mocking the machine's owner, according to advisories released by a number of antivirus software makers.
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