Articles Related to service attacks

Gentoo Linux has warned of a serious, unpatched security flaw in zlib, a compression library widely used in Linux and Unix applications. The bug could be exploited to crash any application using zlib, and possibly to run malicious code on a system, security experts warned.

Antivirus firm Sophos PLC named the SoBig-F worm as the hardest hitting virus of 2003, accounting for almost a fifth of all reports to the company throughout the year.

Though the overall number of viruses being detected each month is falling, the severity of the viruses that are being written is increasing, with this year's Code Red and Nimda worms as perfect examples of this trend, according to Vincent Gullotto, senior director of McAfee AVERT Labs, who spoke Comdex in Las Vegas Wednesday.

Though the overall number of viruses being detected each month is falling, the severity of the viruses that are being written is increasing, with this year's Code Red and Nimda worms as perfect examples of this trend, according to Vincent Gullotto, senior director of McAfee AVERT Labs, who spoke at Comdex in Las Vegas earlier this month.

Like Darth Vader's storm troopers in Star Wars, PC users with cable modem hookups are being drafted as Internet zombies for hack attacks on commercial Web sites.

Monday, Feb. 7, 2000, about 1:30 p.m. Music retailer HMV Canada's bustling e-commerce site has abruptly and...