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Worms Eat Away ISP's Profits
News Worms are proving to be both a financial and managerial headache for Internet service providers. Dealing with worms that travel over their networks could cost North American ISPs as much as $245m (£134m) in 2004, according to a study released on...
[March 4, 2004, 7:40]
Worms Dodge Internet Sensors
News Future worms could evade a network of early-warning sensors hidden across the Internet unless countermeasures are taken, according to new research. This is particularly worrisome in the case of worms," he added, since the sensors are often the...
[August 5, 2005, 10:45]
The Truth About Viruses, Worms And Trojans
News Worms are similar, but are self-contained programs that remain hidden and propagate via email or duplication. Trojans are worms that don't hide but pretend to be other software. How do viruses infect a computer, and what sorts are there?
[October 16, 2002, 14:54]
Worms Attack - Fight Back
White Papers From Nimda to Sasser to MyDoom, worms have been a constant threat to networks over the past year. With new variants and new worms being created daily, protecting your network can be a daunting undertaking.
[April 4, 2008, 0:00]
Worms Evolving Into Complex Beasts
News The next generation of computer worms will be stealthier, more targeted and harder to defend against, a security expert predicted at the Black Hat Security Briefings Wednesday. They are adaptive; they are evolving," Jose Nazario, a researcher for...
[July 12, 2001, 12:53]
Ricochet Team Server Security Brief, Volume 5 - Internet Worms: Self-Spreading Malicious Programs
White Papers Worms are a major threat to the Internet. Using existing and evolving methods of propagation, worms of the future will become increasingly more powerful and harder to contain. Their automatic nature makes them powerful and destructive.
[September 10, 2004, 0:00]
IM Worms Step Up A Gear
News The inclusion of an IM bot is another sign that IM worms are becoming more sophisticated. A new worm that targets users of America Online's AOL Instant Messenger is believed to be the first that actually chats with the intended victim to dupe the...
[December 7, 2005, 8:45]
Hacker Exploits Make PC Worms More Deadly
News Computer worms are set to become a more deadly combination of virus writing and hacker exploits, according to security experts at Symantec. Code Red and Nimda marked the demise of socially engineered worms, by combining a blended threat of proven...
[October 18, 2001, 12:20]
Steep Rise In IM Worms
News The number of worms that targeted instant-messaging services hit 62 in November, up 226 percent from October and hitting a new record, Of the worms, 58 were variants of previous pests, and four were new.
[November 30, 2005, 9:55]
Worms Still Hitting Businesses Hard
News However, the worry of worms has not helped close some major vulnerabilities at the companies, the survey indicated. Almost half of businesses have had a worm outbreak in the last year, despite increases in security spending on compliance efforts...
[March 22, 2005, 8:50]
Golden-oldie Worms Top The Hit List
News Two computer worms found last summer topped the charts in March, highlighting the difficulty of eliminating the more successful digital pests from the Internet. MessageLabs counts the number of attachments found in e-mail sent to its clients, so...
[April 2, 2002, 11:05]
Dangerous New Internet Worms On The Prowl
News Flying low, almost under most people's anti-virus radar, a new group of very sophisticated Internet worms are on the loose. Unlike the ILOVEYOU worm which spread around the world in a matter of hours and captured the media's immediate attention...
[December 15, 2000, 14:59]
The Coming Super Worms
White Papers Worms have proven to be among the most damaging types of computer attack tools. From the Morris worm through Nimda to the latest variations of SQL Slammer, worms have been an increasing challenge to information security professionals in defending...
[June 16, 2006, 0:00]
New Worms Turn Up
News Several new worms have been spotted in the wild today including a variant of Sober; a variant of Bropia; and a new MyDoom -- taking the total number of variants of that worm beyond 50. However, despite a flurry of activity none of these worms are...
[February 21, 2005, 15:15]
Schneier Lambasts Microsoft 'friendly Worms'
News Security expert Bruce Schneier has criticised the concept of using "friendly worms" to distribute software patches. A Microsoft spokesperson said that the research was into how data could best be disseminated over a large-scale network by sampling...
[February 20, 2008, 15:55]
Worms Eat Away ISP's Profits
Talkback My ISP simply blocked all email traffic from the worms mentioned. What a load of CRAP! Your trying to tell me the $44.95 I pay a month for broadband is not almost complete profit for the ISP. I've contracted for ISPs in the past, and their biggest...
[March 4, 2004, 14:03]
Leading University Squashes Worms & Other Network Threats Instantaneously
White Papers In 2002, two worms posed a significant threat to TAU's network. Israel's Tel Aviv University (TAU) provides educational and research services over a network of nearly 10,000 individual and organizational hosts.
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
Online Screening Service Helps Employers Avoid Hiring Mistakes - And Worms
White Papers The company needed a solution for suppressing worms. By accurately identifying and suppressing the source, ForeScout prevents worms from spreading while requiring no constant monitoring, signatures, or updates.
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
Klez Worms Its Way To The Top Of The Virus Charts
News While neither of the Klez worms is particularly destructive, they pose a security threat by sharing files plucked from infected PCs as they spread. The latest fast-spreading versions of the Klez worm have so far infected more than 7 percent of PCs...
[April 30, 2002, 8:35]
A Brief Look At The Evolution Of Killer Worms
White Papers This paper reviews numerous worms. The origin of computer worms can be traced as far back as 1979, when Xerox engineers first built and experimented with worms to do useful work in a distributed environment.
[November 28, 2006, 23:00]
