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 latest threat from the Code Red worm apparently caused no major problems this weekend. The worm had been downgraded last week by the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) . The ...

A malicious worm named Code Red that exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in certain configurations of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems has spread rapidly over the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Code Red worm may have failed to live up to its formidable advance billing, but security experts said Friday that the malicious program foreshadows much more devastating Internet ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The worldwide cost of the Code Red worms that crawled rampantly throughout the Internet in July and August has reached about $2.6 billion, an independent research firm said last week.

The worm may have started as early as Monday and was showing signs of overloading traffic on the Internet, Ashcroft said, adding that Nimda proved “heavier” than the Code Red worm that caused an ...

I have been getting more Code Red traffic than legitimate traffic to my personal server. It's pathetic. Most of the scanning machines originate from the various @Home's and Roadrunner networks. You ...

Despite being "largely successful" in protecting itself against infection from the Code Red worm making its way around the Internet, the Defense Department has shut off public access to many of its ...