our ability to protect the Net. the heart of the Internet were affected Saturday by what experts are calling the worst worm since Code Red in 2001. A worm that attacks Microsoft's database software ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The worldwide cost of the Code Red worms that crawled rampantly throughout the Internet in July and August has reached about $2.6 billion, an independent research firm said last week.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the Code Red software "worm." This new form of virus first infects computers, and then, when it reaches critical mass, uses them to attack specific Web sites. So far, ...

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 ...

Self-propagating worms are malicious computer programs, which, after being released, can spread throughout networks without human control, stealing or erasing hard drive data, interfering with ...

WASHINGTON -- Government and private officials crowded onto a podium yesterday to warn computer users about the spread of the "Code Red" worm before it threatens the well-being of the Internet. They ...

When word of the Code Red worm first came out a month ago, a security firm released details on the worm’s exploit code on the same day that Microsoft Corp. released a patch on how to fix the ...

A computer worm is a type of malware that, once it infects a machine, can automatically copy and extend itself to connected devices. A worm is very similar to a virus, and you can get infected by one ...

Computer science researchers are predicting new types of dangerous worms that would be able to infect Web servers, browsers and other software so quickly that the Internet itself could be taken over ...