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 ...

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Campus-computing officials say that 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 ...

Aug. 6 -- A new variation of the troublesome Code Red worm is spreading throughout the Internet today. And according to security experts, a twist on “Code Red II” makes it more harmful than the ...

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 on Wednesday. The worm could ...

The "Code Red" worm, which has infected almost 150,000 Internet computers since hitting for the second time Tuesday night, couldn't have spread without a Microsoft ...

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 ...

An Internet Worm, known as "Code Red" has apparently infected thousands of Internet servers around the world, reports CBS News Technology Consultant Larry Magid. Although it doesn't infect individual ...

Self-propagating worms are malicious computer programs, which, after being released, can spread throughout networks without human control, stealing or erasing hard drive data, interfering with ...

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