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Saturday, August 04, 2001
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010803/tc/tech_codered_dc_27.html Code Red Foreshadows Evolution of Cyber Threats By Elinor Mills Abreu SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Code Red worm may have failed to live up to its formidable advance billing, but security experts said on Friday that the malicious program foreshadows much more devastating Internet threats to come. What makes Code Red a striking evolutionary advance from prior worms and viruses was its combination of two different types of computer attacks: the self-propagation of worms and the automation of denial of service attacks, experts said....
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