The sophisticated Nimda worm virus that plagued computers around the globe last week did not spare the Tufts network. The virus snaked its way across campus computers primarily through the popular ...

The multiple ways in which the Nimda worm is able to propagate makes it that much harder to defend against than other recent worms and viruses, security analysts said. But corporations that apply the ...

This week marks the first anniversary of the Nimda virus attack, an event that may have driven more corporate IT security changes during the past 12 months than the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks did.

A resurgence of the Nimda worm failed to materialize Friday, leaving unfulfilled warnings that several security companies made this week. The e-mail component of the worm, which sends infected ...

Dubbed Plexus, by Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs, and Explet.a, by Symantec, the worm uses multiple methods to infect PCs, including exploiting a pair of vulnerabilities in Windows. "The worm's payload ...

Computer science researchers are predicting new types of dangerous worms that would be able to infect Web servers, browsers and other software so quickly that the working Internet itself could be ...

At Target Range Elementary School, the school librarian has had to check out books without the use of a computer for almost two weeks now. By handwriting, she's matched code numbers on student library ...