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Sunday, May 05, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-899245.html?tag=fd_top Code Red still threatens Net Robert Lemos VANCOUVER, British Columbia--Security researchers presented data on Friday indicating that Code Red version 2, a 9-month-old worm, continues to spread slowly across the Internet, compromising computers and leaving them easily accessible to malicious attackers. At present, more than 18,000 systems appear to be infected and, with a simple command, could be coopted into an attack that could take down any Web site, said Dug Song, a hacker and security architect for network protection firm Arbor Networks. Song was speaking at the CanSecWest security conference here....
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