This week’s column is about the Code Red worm. First, however, I’d like to talk about microbes. Millions of these microscopic invaders attack major government figures every day. Do you realize whole ...

The Code Red worm was followed last week by an even more aggressive one, dubbed Code Red II, that uses infected computers to unleash massive port-scanning attacks affecting systems that aren’t even ...

Computer security experts warned today of the spread of a new, destructive worm that is similar to Code Red, which infected computers around the world last week. The new worm - dubbed by some experts ...

N E W   Y O R K, Aug. 2 -- The Code Red worm continued to crawl around the Internet today, but computer experts say its pace has become, well, sluggish. "We are cautiously optimistic that the ...

Any farmer will tell you worms are good for the soil, but security researchers are now finding their digital namesakes may be good for security. In its monthly report released earlier this week, ...

The dreaded Code Red worm was fading from the spotlight Friday, as the pest found fewer Web servers to infect. After hogging headlines and fanning computer technicians' fears for several days, the ...

Campus-computing officials say they’re still seeing daily evidence of two software worms that made their way across the Internet this summer -- “Code Red” and “Code Red II” -- although network ...

Almost 12,000 Web servers have been infected by a new Internet worm that takes advantage of a security flaw in Microsoft software to deface sites, security experts said Wednesday. The worm could also ...

The Code Red worm infected thousands of computers each hour today, with about 150,000 scanning the Internet for more victims, even as U.S. Web watchers said the worm's impact had been minimized. At ...

The author of the malicious Code Red worm has been traced to a university in China, according to US officials. The chief technologist at the US General Accounting Office (GAO) told the bipartisan ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ After the original Code Red worm infected about 250,000 computers at its peak last week, its more malicious cousin caused sporadic Internet outages nationwide, including the ...

WASHINGTON — The FBI and industry experts confirmed Tuesday night that, as predicted, the Code Red Internet worm began a new round of scanning for vulnerable Web servers last night. However, the ...