Come April 1, the latest version of Conficker, the malicious computer worm that has infected millions of computers in the creation of a global botnet, is set to launch a new update mechanism that will ...

The infamous Conficker worm first spread its malicious infection across the Internet more than eight years ago and just last month it shot back into prominence, infecting 43 percent of machines in use ...

Up until now, however, security experts said that no one expected a large-scale attack April 1. "From the start, we knew there wasn't going to be a big implosion [April 1]," said Rami Habal, ...

The latest buzz about Conficker, the worm that's burrowed into millions of computers worldwide is that next Wednesday, April 1, may be it, the day the worm turns and wreaks havoc beyond belief.

An old, but little-known worm has copied some of the infection strategies of Conficker, the worm that raised a ruckus last week, Microsoft security researchers said late Friday. Blocking Conficker ...

When a computer worm reaches the critical mass necessary to make it onto last Sunday’s 60 Minutes, you know it’s either a once-in-a-blue-moon threat or something that’s been hyped beyond belief. The ...