Microsoft Corp. issued an unusual weekend security warning Saturday that a worm has been unleashed on the Internet taking advantage of a security hole announced publicly last month (see story).

Organizations that evaded last week’s Sasser worm infestation credited vigilant patching processes and preventative measures such as installing server-based behavior-blocking software and worm ...

A message buried in a new version of the Netsky e-mail worm is claiming responsibility for the Sasser Internet worm, and computer security experts say there is evidence the claim is legitimate.

Four Sasser variants--A, B, C and D--are currently running amok across the Internet in search of an LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) buffer overrun vulnerability in Windows 95, 98, ...

Authorities who have questioned Sven Jaschan got the impression his motive was to gain fame as a programmer, prosecutor Detlev Dyballa said. He labeled as speculation news reports that he may have ...

You don’t have to do anything special to catch the Sasser worm; a vulnerable computer connected to the Internet is enough. Now there’s a worm that eats the Sasser worm, and you don’t have to do ...

In at least seven cases, disruptions at large companies have been blamed on machines infected by Sasser. The virus can infect PCs running Windows 2000 and XP that are not patched against the loophole ...

This past week computers around the world were attacked and hassled by the Sasser worm, the latest in a series of attacks that have plagued computers in 2004, among them the MyDoom worm and variants ...

Despite my best efforts and the use of AVG 8 I think I'm infected with the Sasser virus. However, this is only a guess based on googling "lsass.exe" which ...

— -- A German teenager who confessed to creating the Sasser computer worm has been found guilty of three counts of computer sabotage and four counts of data manipulation, and given a suspended ...

A new Internet worm is spreading by exploiting a flaw in the Sasser worm, according to an alert issued Thursday. The new worm, tentatively named Dabber, takes advantage of a vulnerability in an FTP ...