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 ...

More trouble may be coming Aug. 1 to corporate computer systems that still haven’t been properly patched to defend against the Code Red worm. In a warning issued Thursday, the CERT Coordination Center ...

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 ...

N E W   Y O R K, July 31 -- Government officials said tonight they had no reports of the "Code Red" computer worm's return, but warned the effects of an attack may not be felt immediately. "It ...

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 ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON -- In an unprecedented show of force against an extremely virulent Internet attack, government and private officials today will implore worldwide organizations to protect themselves from ...

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 ...

The Code Red worm made a quiet comeback Wednesday, with no signs yet of a predicted traffic surge that could affect the functioning of the Internet. As of 1 p.m. PDT Wednesday, Code Red had infected ...

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 ...