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Friday, July 20, 2001

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6617292.html?tag=tp_pr

Web worm targets White House
By Robert Lemos

update Administrators for the Web site of President George W. Bush dodged an Internet worm's denial-of-service attack by moving the site to an alternate Internet address, security experts said Thursday. As previously reported, servers infected by the so-called Code Red worm--estimated to be at least 225,000 computers--were scheduled to flood a specific Internet address representing the White House Web site with a deluge of data starting at 5 p.m. PDT. ...

 


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