BOSTON — Still patching your SQL Server databases? Well, be sure not to miss the post-Slammer sale! The new W32.Slammer worm, a nuisance for network administrators worldwide, has turned into a ...

Conficker. How and why has it spread so successfully? If there’s any kind of IT security threat service providers and businesses are prepared for, it’s the mass infection worm or virus that overloads ...

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 ...

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 ...