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Wednesday, August 01, 2001
http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/01/010801hnnomelt.xml Code Red wakes up with a whimper By James Niccolai, August 1, 2001 3:04 am PT THE CODE RED worm emerged from its slumber Tuesday night to begin a second wave of attacks on the Internet. Security experts said it could be days before the extent of any damage is known, but there were early signs that efforts to avert a much-talked-about meltdown of the Internet had been successful. "We haven't seen much overall impact," said Keith Peer, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Medina, Ohio-based computer security firm Central Command. "There have been a few thousand infections (of servers) that we're aware of ... but nowhere near the catastrophic levels that had been predicted."...
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