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Worm holes found in Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail
News Hotmail and Yahoo have left open a security hole that could be exploited to create a self-mailing worm that, while not damaging, could clog Internet mail servers, a security expert said this week. The vulnerability allows an attacker to create an e...
[June 4, 2001, 9:05]
Worm cuts off antivirus programs
News A new worm variant that can terminate antivirus applications was discovered last Friday, prompting Internet security vendor F-Secure to issue a level two warning. EXE.or Com attachments, and according to F-Secure, the worm "terminates all...
[June 15, 2004, 10:05]
Worm warfare rages on
News The first worm, dubbed Zotob, appeared on Sunday and appeared to have faded on Monday. However, several Zotob offshoots and another new worm, Bozori, were subsequently unleashed. The worm battle has likely only just begun, said Alex Shipp, a senior...
[August 18, 2005, 9:00]
Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft bugs
News The Sapphire worm that hit servers running Microsoft SQL this weekend was a wake-up call for anyone who thought the Internet had become a safer place following increased attention by corporate and government leaders.
[January 27, 2003, 7:02]
Worm exploits major Windows flaw
News The fast-spreading MSBlast worm seems to be crashing as many Windows computers as it's infecting, demonstrating to administrators that they need to patch their systems, security experts said on Monday.
[August 12, 2003, 8:55]
Worm exploits major Windows flaw
Talkback I was hit by the MSBLAST.EXE worm at 8.28pm (BST) 11 Aug 2003. I have been using Windows NT and then 2000 since 1997 and have never had a worm/virus problem before, despite the fact that I don't have anti-virus software installed (would it have...
[August 13, 2003, 22:56]
Worm and virus overload networks
News A "good" Internet worm and a new malicious mass-mailing computer virus are creating an enormous amount of network traffic, slowing some corporate systems, security experts said on Tuesday. The Internet worm -- called MSBlast.D, W32.Welchia or W32...
[August 20, 2003, 8:35]
Worm exploits Solaris hole
News A computer worm is using a recently disclosed flaw in Sun' operating system to propagate, experts have warned. The worm attempts to log into systems running Solaris 10, execute a number of commands to plant itself and then spread to other...
[March 1, 2007, 8:06]
Worm spread shows hole in patch system
News The ability of the MSBlast worm to spread has underscored the view that today's methods of patching security flaws, while necessary to lock down specific computers, are too time-consuming to react to critical vulnerabilities.
[August 13, 2003, 9:35]
Worm exploits major Windows flaw
Talkback The worm attacked our Companies Network Yesterday and all system went down immediately. We have cleared things yesterday evening.We have never been attacked with virus before and this is the first time we had such an experience.
[August 13, 2003, 7:47]
Worm exploits Solaris to attack IIS sites
News New computer worm exploits a known vulnerability in Solaris to attack Websites based on Microsoft's IIS server US-based Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) warned today of a new computer worm that exploits vulnerabilities in common Internet...
[May 8, 2001, 13:35]
Worm fails to affect Microsoft service
Talkback On one hand, you said microsoft was not affected by the msblast worm, but on the other hand, you mentioned in the article,"As a result of the attack, Microsoft has permanently shut down the Windows Update site.
[August 18, 2003, 19:40]
Worm hits Europe's mobile phones
News The worm, dubbed Timophonica, activates via email but sends text messages to random mobile phone numbers through an email to GSM gateway in Spain. This is not, in fact, the first time a computer worm has affected phones.
[June 6, 2000, 14:03]
Worm Elite
Downloads You are operate worm which eats red squares. It is impossible to touch walls and the tail. A sports game. Also game develops thinking. There is a list of the best players. The purpose of game to take the biggest score.
[June 6, 2008, 9:40]
Worm targets Linux home routers
News A worm has been used to build a botnet consisting of DSL routers running Linux, which may be still evolving, according to security training organisation the Sans Institute. After analysing the worm, DroneBL researchers wrote in a blog post that...
[March 25, 2009, 12:06]
Verme: Worm Containment in Peer-to-Peer Overlays
White Papers Peer-to-peer overlays provide an ideal substrate for worm propagation. P2p-assisted worms have the potential to spread faster than traditional scanning worms because they have knowledge of a subset of the overlay nodes, and choose these nodes to...
[March 1, 2007, 0:00]
Worm sparks rise in zombie PCs
News On Tuesday, CipherTrust reported a 23 percent growth in the total number of zombie PCs detected this week alone, due, they said, to the release of a modification of the Mocbot worm. The company said it has identified an average of 265,000 zombies...
[August 22, 2006, 17:10]
Worm targets security software
News A destructive new worm that destroys antivirus software on infected computers was slowly spreading on Wednesday. The Maldal.D worm, also known as ZaCker, was written and distributed on 29 December, according to antivirus software maker Symantec...
[January 3, 2002, 9:24]
Worm attacks MSN Messenger
News A worm that uses Microsoft's MSN Messenger application to exploit a browser glitch emerged late on Wednesday and spread rapidly, despite the existence of a patch covering the security hole, according to experts.
[February 14, 2002, 14:38]
Worm claims Sussex Police computers
News The Sussex Police force has been hit by a worm that has knocked out their office computers and forced workers to switch to back-up systems. The organisation confirmed to ZDNet UK that it has been hit by the W32/Nachi worm, which is a variant of the...
[August 27, 2003, 14:40]
