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Code Red is here to stay
News A new permutation of the Code Red II worm was discovered on Friday, and experts say that Code Red is now unlikely ever to disappear. The new variant has been dubbed CodeRed.d, and exploits the same Index Server flaw in Microsoft's Internet...
[August 24, 2001, 15:48]
Code Red variant causes little alarm
News Security experts said Wednesday there was little cause for alarm from a minor new variant of the destructive Code Red worm that began circulating this week. Code Red.F, which differs from the original Code Red by only two bytes, began spreading on...
[March 13, 2003, 8:36]
Code Red sets off new alarms
News The Code Red worm relaunched itself on Wednesday morning, leaving government and private security experts to debate over how much impact it is having. Tues 31 July: Security experts and the US government are publicly urging businesses worldwide to...
[July 31, 2001, 15:42]
Code Red: Alive again and kicking
News 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 9 pm BST on Wednesday, Code Red had infected servers responsible for at least 127,000 Web...
[August 2, 2001, 9:03]
Code Red remains a major threat
News Security researchers presented data on Friday indicating that Code Red version 2, a 9-month-old worm, continues to spread slowly across the Internet, compromising computers and leaving them easily accessible to malicious attackers.
[May 7, 2002, 9:04]
SAFE: Code Red Attack Mitigation
White Papers This white paper discusses the recently released Code-Red worms and their effects on the network and its hosts. And looks at the numerous technologies are available that mitigate the detrimental effects of the worm.
[December 1, 2004, 10:55]
Code Red worm traced to Chinese university
News The author of the malicious Code Red worm has been traced to a university in China, according to US officials. The Code Red worm and its predecessor Code Red II take advantage of a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) Web...
[September 4, 2001, 11:42]
'Code Red' worm claims 12,000 servers
News System administrators first detected the Code Red worm this past Friday. Code Red seems to deface only English-language servers, going into hibernation on non-English versions of Microsoft's IIS software.
[July 19, 2001, 9:56]
'Code Red': So long, for now
News System administrators have 10 days to fix nearly 300,000 Web servers infected by the Code Red worm before the malicious program halts its largely unsuccessful but ongoing attack on Whitehouse.gov and starts spreading again.
[July 23, 2001, 8:43]
'Code Red' virus re-infection expected on 1 August
News The malicious Code Red worm, which affected more than 280,000 systems earlier this month, is expected to begin propagating itself again on 1 August, and is likely to re-infect tens of thousands of systems.
[July 27, 2001, 17:30]
Code Red worm stays cool
News Widespread use of security patches seems to have minimised the danger that could have been wreaked by the Code Red worm. Code Red was thought to have infected as many as 359,000 systems within about six days -- one of the fastest-spreading worms ever.
[August 1, 2001, 8:40]
Code Red II: A double whammy
News A new worm, similar to Code Red but perhaps more virulent, was spreading across the Internet on Monday, infecting systems and potentially leaving them vulnerable to further attacks. Compared to last week's (Code Red) attacks, this one is hitting...
[August 7, 2001, 9:25]
News Schmooze: Code Red fails to impress jaded users
News While originally expected to at least shut down the Internet, if not actually obliterate the planet Earth, the Code Red worm laid pretty low this week -- doubtless waiting for the media coverage to die down before sneakily launching a global...
[August 3, 2001, 17:29]
Microsoft takes heat for Code Red
News While network administrators wait and prepare for another round of attacks from the Code Red worm, Microsoft is drawing much of the blame for the pernicious infection (See News Roundup: Code Red sets off new alarms).
[August 1, 2001, 9:00]
FAQ: The Code Red threat
News ZDNet UK answers common questions about the Code Red worm: When will the Code Red worm strike? Code Red also can damage smaller networks by calling attention to a vulnerability in Cisco System's 600 series DSL routers.
[August 1, 2001, 9:08]
The return of Code Red
News A slight variant of the Code Red worm has appeared and is wreaking havoc in systems around the world despite having no new feature that would defeat any properly patched system or virtually any antivirus software.
[March 24, 2003, 10:23]
Companies 'not liable' for Code Red attacks
News Companies that inadvertently spread the Code Red worm to other corporate servers cannot be held liable for causing an Internet attack, say British legal experts. The self-propagating worm, which resurfaced on Wednesday, had raised concerns that...
[August 2, 2001, 14:18]
New Unix worm could be the next Code Red
News A new Internet worm designed to attack a common flaw in Unix systems has been confirmed dead, but security experts are warning that the self-propagating worm could be the next Code Red. Antivirus companies are concerned that crackers will have...
[September 10, 2001, 16:58]
FBI accused over Code Red virus confusion
News The Metropolitan Police has criticised the FBI for issuing confused messages about the Code Red worm, which led home PC owners to believe that their computers could be infected by a self-propagating worm that only attacks Internet servers.
[August 1, 2001, 11:43]
Hotmail attacked by Code Red II
News Software giant Microsoft has admitted that some of its MSN Hotmail servers were infected by the malicious "Code Red II" worm this week. Microsoft released a patch to protect servers from the Code Red virus six weeks ago, but its free email service...
[August 9, 2001, 15:01]
