“What’s in a name?” That was the question computer virus experts were asking each other at a panel discussion of virus naming conventions at Virus Bulletin 2003 (VB2003), an annual gathering of the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Schools across the Tri-State are reporting a lot of absent students on Thursday due to illness. The Lynchburg-Clay Local School District is closed through Friday, according to the ...

Experts in the UK have outlined four dangerous emerging viruses which could become the so-called “Disease X” to cause the next pandemic. As the Mirror reports, The UK Health Security Agency has ...

Contagious diseases like measles, COVID-19, influenza, norovirus, and tuberculosis pose significant global health challenges.

Christmas in June? That used to be a good thing, but that’s not the case this year, according to security and anti-virus firm Sophos. The Zafi-D worm, which poses as a Christmas card greeting, made up ...

Disagreements about what and how to name new worms and viruses have produced a confusing system in which antivirus companies often compete to be the first to name a new virus and in which the same ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is edging ...

Two computer worms found last summer topped the charts in March, highlighting the difficulty of eliminating the more successful digital pests from the Internet. Data furnished by e-mail service ...

On the Internet's 40th anniversary, Symantec lists the worst cyber threats. Sept. 3, 2009 — -- This fall marks the 40th birthday of the Internet, and to celebrate it, Symantec, the manufacturer ...

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