Mark Bowden, the author of “Black Hawk Down,” delves into an entirely different kind of war in his latest book. It’s a war probably very few people knew was being fought. The Conficker malware surfaced in late 2008, rapidly infecting as many as 12 million computers in 200 countries. Even…
The Worm: Miracles and rememberance
Skyler heals, charms Skyler Roehrick of Leavenworth is charming the nurses at New Jersey’s Meadowlands Hospital. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Worm forces hospitals to turn away patients
Gwinnett Hospital System Inc. By Matt LiebowitzSecurityNewsDaily A damaging, fast-spreading computer bug forced an Atlanta-area hospital system to shut its doors for nearly three days last week and divert ambulances to other facilities. Gwinnett Medical Center’s two campuses, in Lawrenceville and Duluth, Ga., were forced to declare “total diversion” status…
Computer worm forces hospitals to turn away patients
Gwinnett Hospital System Inc. By Matt LiebowitzSecurityNewsDaily A damaging, fast-spreading computer bug forced an Atlanta-area hospital system to shut its doors for nearly three days last week and divert ambulances to other facilities. Gwinnett Medical Center’s two campuses, in Lawrenceville and Duluth, Ga., were forced to declare “total diversion” status…
Computer tech law: like a giant Trojan worm
The political effect of such a broad approach is to splinter criticism, not allowing focus on a single point of attack. This places the politician and bureaucrat in a position to cherry pick which arguments to uphold, which to reject, while keeping the essence unchanged. The Peaceful Assembly Bill is…
The Return of the Worm That Ate the Pentagon
It’s back. The story of the worm that ate the Pentagon just won’t go away. The attack of the Agent.btz worm, dubbed “the most serious breach of the U.S. military’s classified computer systems,” is getting another telling, this time in the Washington Post . The story adds new details about…
Security firm: Facebook chat worm continues to spread
A worm continues to spread on popular social networking site Facebook, tricking users into believing they were clicking on a link to an image. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Conficker worm connected to Stuxnet, respected US expert claims
The Stuxnet malware was not only built to attack Iran’s nuclear program its assault was aided by the Conficker worm of 2008, a respected US security researcher has claimed. According to a Reuters report, John Bumgarner of the independent US Cyber Consequences Unit (US-CCU) has researched a number of connections…
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Tough guy: This past year, Jim Sofie fought melanoma and chronic leukemia with chemotherapy and — cold water. The organizer of an annual polar bear plunge at Lake Wenatchee says he never missed a day of his weekly lake plunges during six months of chemotherapy for the diseases. The reason:…
Did PC worm help sabotage Iran nuke program?
A cyber warfare expert claims he has linked the Stuxnet computer virus that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010 to Conficker, a mysterious “worm” that surfaced in late 2008 and infected millions of PCs. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National…