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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Any gardener will tell you worms are good for the soil. Security researchers are now finding that the creatures' digital namesakes might be good for security. In its monthly report released earlier ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...