Aug. 24, 2009 11:43 am The last day of the Cash for Clunkers program turned even more hectic than expected this morning when applications overloaded the government's Internet-based intake system ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A new rogue program, dubbed the Homepage worm, spread quickly to computer systems around the world, frustrating experts who said such software infections are easy to stop. The ...

A computer worm is a program that spreads by creating copies of itself as it goes from computer to computer, via e-mail. The scope of the attack, or who was responsible, is unknown.