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A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said.

The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm's authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared.

The Conficker worm, which did not bring the Internet to its knees or do much of anything else on April 1, continues to evolve in ways that have security experts scratching their heads about what may be the ultimate goals of the unknown bad guys behind the malware.

Estimates of the number of computers infected with the Conficker worm run from 1 million to 12 million. The malware's deadline is April 1, 2009, but no one really knows what will actually happen to the infected computers.

SAN FRANCISCO — "Hey Alice, look at the pics I took of us last weekend at the picnic. Bob"

Last week Google announced it was the victim of a hack in China that also hit at least two dozen other companies. McAfee soon identified the likely hole, a bug in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, and gave the hack a name: “Operation Aurora.” (See “Google China Hackers’ Unexpected Back Door.”)

A security researcher has discovered fake profiles for celebrities on LinkedIn that have links to malicious code, according to a blog posting on Trend Micro's site.

Digital photo frames were one of the best-selling consumer electronics products this holiday season, but some of them carried a nasty surprise - malicious software code that tried to hop onto personal computers when the frames were plugged in.

I LIVED in Taipei until I was 22. I graduated as a philosophy major. My grandfather was a politician and then founded a bank. My father was a philosophy major and then inherited the banking business. I think philosophy is a base that trains you how to think.

Hackers on Tuesday hijacked the Web site CheckFree.com, one of the largest online bill payment companies, redirecting an unknown number of visitors to a Web address that tried to install malicious software on visitors' computers, the company said today.