POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Although one employee likened it to winning the lottery, workers at Semo.net won't be receiving any cash for their role in outing a new and previously undiscovered variant of a ...

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The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday -- April Fools' Day. That's when many of ...

Rather than amateurs working out of their parents' basement, malware creators are often part of an underworld of criminal gang, or working directly for a foreign government or intelligence agency.

The man on trial for writing the Sasser computer worm, which wreaked havoc in big businesses and homes across the world last year, has confessed to all the charges against him, a German court said ...

DETROIT -- A computer worm temporarily halted production at 13 of DaimlerChrysler AG's U.S. plants this week, but the company says the damage was minimal and it expects to make up the lost production.

Iran has discovered a second computer virus designed to damage government computer systems. The discovery of the virus, called Stars, was announced Monday by a senior Iranian official, Gholam-Reza ...