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 ...

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 ...

Widespread use of security patches seems to have minimized the danger that could have been wreaked by the Code Red worm. Network administrators and security experts feared that the worm would bombard ...

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 ...

After squashing the threat posed by the "Code Red" computer worm, the Defense Department restored public access to its Web sites at mid-afternoon Tuesday. Defense began restricting public traffic late ...

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 ...

For one moment last week, the Internet stood still. At midnight Thursday, July 19 GMT, more than 350,000 servers infected with the so-called Code Red worm stopped hammering the Internet with scans ...

A new and potentially more serious computer worm that tries to exploit the same security hole as the Code Red worm began circulating over the weekend, according to warnings issued by multiple research ...

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A new Internet worm is spreading by exploiting a flaw in the Sasser worm, according to an alert issued Thursday. The new worm, tentatively named Dabber, takes advantage of a vulnerability in an FTP ...