“One sec,” I yelled from my office. “I’m just running a worm on my computer.” At the Korean restaurant, the energy was manic; the wind was bending palm trees at the waist and sending ...

The worm allows a master computer to communicate with the infected ... senior vice president of technology for Enigma Software. "[An attack] could happen today, it could happen April 15, it ...

also known as the LovSan virus, crippled computer networks worldwide last summer. Parson's variant launched a distributed denial-of-service attack against a Microsoft Corp. Windows update Web site ...

Unlike a virus or worm, which can cause severe damage to databases, a denial of service attack interrupts network service for some period. A distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack can employ ...