Created by two programmers named Basit and Amjad, Brain was a boot virus that ran when a computer was booted up with an infected floppy diskette in the A: drive. (Remember when floppy disks were ...

Microsoft SQL server hasn't had a public vulnerability announcement since 2004. The SQL Slammer worm struck in 2005, but the hole the worm exploited had been patched six months before. The holes that ...

The revelation 5 years ago that Sony BMG was planting a secret rootkit onto its music customers’ Windows PCs in the name of anti-piracy is seen now as one of the all-time significant events in IT ...