Worm Breaks Speed Record from Discovery to Life
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A new computer worm emerged on Tuesday which broke the speed record from the announcement of a security vulnerability in Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer to a full-blown virus that spreads in the wild.
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A new variant of the Bagle email worm is spreading rapidly across the internet today.
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AN IBM machine has reclaimed the title of world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese model which caused shock waves within United States government agencies when it set a computing speed record in 2002.
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At least one new variant of a worm spread rapidly from Asia and Europe to US computers, filling up people&#39;s email accounts, but otherwise causing little apparent damage.
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NEW YORK: At least one new variant of a worm spread rapidly from Asia and Europe to US computers on Friday morning, filling up people&#39;s e-mail accounts, but otherwise causing little apparent damage.
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IBM claims it has already developed a new BlueGene model that had surpassed the one petaflop barrier - one quadrillion sustained operations per second. But it may be another five months before that fact is verified by the University of Mannheim, which today recorded the 65,536 x2-core BlueGene/L as holding the lead in its Top 500 Supercomputers list, with an unchanged rating of 280,600 gigaflops per second.
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A new version of the Download.ject worm has begun spreading on the Internet, according to security firm PivX.
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Amid groans of &quot;I wonder why it took so long?&quot; a new worm has been discovered that can access a webcam and microphone attached to an infected PC.
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The Stration (or Warezov) worm appears to have made a jump from Skype to the ICQ and MSN messenger networks, the first time that service has been successfully used as a launching pad for such infections.
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The worm, dubbed Santy, exploits a vulnerability in third-party web servers that use phpBB bulletin board software, a popular package used to create web forums, and has been propagating at a rapid pace, infecting some 38,000 sites in a matter of hours.
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Worms and viruses that pollute the Internet aren't new. What's new is the incredible magnitude of the problem and how it's growing.
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An old worm known as Slammer, which originated back in January 2003, is still going strong according to Gunter Ollmann, director of security strategy at IBM&#39;s Internet Security Systems (IBM ISS).
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A new Internet worm was spreading quickly, threatening to overload computer systems around the world by generating copies by e-mail, security experts said.
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When the Santy.a worm started spreading on Tuesday, Mikko Hypponen knew he had a way to stop the worm in its tracks. The only problem: He had trouble finding the right people to talk to at search giant Google.
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An IBM supercomputer still under development has set an unofficial new world speed record during testing, the company announced on Wednesday.
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A new version of the infamous Bagle worm series is spreading widely across the net.
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Sophisticated computer worm is setting up a botnet that may be hard to beat.