Microsoft releases fixes for 84 bugs on the first Patch Tuesday of 2021, including a critical zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Defender.

A new virus infestation - created in the slipstream of the recent W32.Blaster.Worm - has started menacing system administrators, according to Symantec, the IT security firm. W32.Welchia.Worm ...

Android devices are often abandoned by vendors after one or two years, and won't ever be updated. Updates are a problem for older Apple devices too: the fix for Broadpwn is in the latest 10.3.3 ...

Welchia/Nachi searched for and deleted the Blaster worm which also spread via the RPC vulnerability, and would delete itself after 120 days of processing, or on January 1 2004, whichever came first.

Welchia then destroyed itself after completing all these operations. “These examples of funny, innocuous and even helpful viruses are of course very rare exceptions to the general rule, and are ...

Welchia then destroyed itself after completing all these operations. “These examples of funny, innocuous and even helpful viruses are of course very rare exceptions to the general rule, and are ...

Unfortunately, rather than proactively tuning their network security strategies to address one or more of the these three trends, many universities are prompted to make a change only after they are ...

The lesson from Welchia is that these things are a bad idea. As Spencer Katt put it, good worms resemble their evil twins in many unpleasant ways.

All the computers at the Cameron Village branch in Raleigh, as well as computers in other Wake County libraries, were taken down Friday because of the the W32-Welchia worm.