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Code Red worm inches along.(Industry Trend or Event)
THE CODE RED worm, which has already infected hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide, will continue to spread during the next few weeks, although a clear picture of the situation is not yet available, according to security experts tracking the outbreak.
Meanwhile, forewarned IT managers busied themselves last week with preventive measures.
"As a result of the [Code Red] virus, we've spent time in the last two weeks adding security to our network and VPN clients," said Jonathan Taylor, CTO of Voxeo, a telephony service provider in Scotts Valley, Calif.
Various groups following the spread of Code Red since its reawakening last week have arrived at different conclusions as to how many machines the worm has infected. Although many see a slowdown in the worm's growth rate, all caution that the problem has not yet been solved.
According to Incidents.org, a security Web site which gathers data from the System Administration, Networking, and Security (SANS) Institute and DShield.org, Code Red had infected more than 238,000 systems prior to 7 a.m. EDT last Thursday. But security vendor Symantec measured the total number of infections at fewer than 100,000 systems on Thursday. Adding to the uncertainty, data from the Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center (CERT/CC) puts the spread of Code Red at approximately 200,000 systems as of midnight last Wednesday.
Data on Incidents.org indicates that the spread of the worm is slowing, although the number of scans per hour for vulnerable systems is still high.
Meanwhile, in an unexpected twist, Keynote Systems, an Internet performance monitoring company, issued an advisory last week saying the slowdown in Internet traffic it reported on July 19 was not due to Code Red, as had been thought. The company concluded that the slowdown was due to a ...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News August 10, 2001 700+ words
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- Web worms: Code Red to Warhol.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Science News I.P August 25, 2001 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Glanz, William August 2, 2001 700+ words
...itself from the worm. Code Red began to spread...Standard worms copy themselves...machines. Code Red affects only...because the worm is expected...of scans by worms seeking vulnerable...yesterday. Code Red did not cripple...July 19, the worm ...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Borenstein, Seth July 31, 2001 700+ words
...stop and go traffic as the Code Red computer worm attacks the Internet again...heavily caffeinated soft drink Code Red when they isolated the worm, so they named it after the...fighting it _ and drinking Code Red. For more information, check...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News July 31, 2001 700+ words
...human intervention. When Code Red first showed up earlier...attack began. When the worm reactivates Tuesday tonight...an arm of the FBI. "Worms like Code Red pose a distinct threat...difficult to detect. The worm targets servers running...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire August 7, 2001 700+ words
...more malicious variant of the Code Red worm which leaves organizations servers...blocking by default both the original Code Red worm and the latest variant (both...Steinberg added: "Since the original Code Red worm was released, our customers have...
- Ops Fight to Turn Code Red's Worm.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Multichannel News BAUMGARTNER, JEFF August 20, 2001 700+ words
...risk to the Code Red worm -- including...problematic because Code Red II does more...Red because it worms through the...Still "these worms are not a cable...infected with Code Red to deactivate...strain of the worm. Mendoza confirmed...
- McAfee ASaP Scans 20,000 Servers and Detects More Than 1,230 Systems Vulnerable...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 1, 2001 700+ words
McAfee ASaP Offers Free Scans for Code Red Worm at mcafeeasap.com SANTA CLARA, Calif...more than 1,230 systems vulnerable to the Code Red worm. Any company concerned about the Code Red worm should go immediately to http://www...
