A damaging new computer worm was spreading like wildfire across the Internet on Tuesday, hitting both home PCs and commercial servers, in an outbreak that could prove more widespread and costly than ...

When computer security historians look back at 2001, the emergence of the Nimda and Code Red worms will likely sit close to the top of their significant events lists. Both worms were heralded as ...

Believed to be the first virus released into the wild, the Elk Cloner reflected the camp spirit of the frontier days of computing in the early '80s. It was written by 15-year-old prankster Rich ...