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.

The "Code Red" computer worm that infected hundreds of thousands of personal computers earlier this month is likely to begin spreading again tonight, as it prepares to launch attacks on select Web ...

When computer security historians look back at 2001, the emergence of the Nimda and Code Red worms will likely sit close to the top of their significant events lists. Both worms were heralded as ...

WASHINGTON -- In an unprecedented show of force against an extremely virulent Internet attack, government and private officials today will implore worldwide organizations to protect themselves from ...

Public access to hundreds of Defense Department computer Web sites was restored yesterday, after protection was installed against the damaging "Code Red" computer worm, a Pentagon spokeswoman said.

Last week's media blitz surrounding the Code Red computer worm may have encouraged the development of a successor dubbed Code Red II. "People who do this kind of thing do it to get publicity," said ...

LONDON -- The spread of the Code Red computer worm showed signs of peaking today, although security experts warned the Information Technology community not to drop its guard. "Basically, it's reaching ...

Life was simple when we worried only about obvious, external threats. Now we feel exposed inside our borders, jumpy just opening snail mail. Call it a multitude of worries. This condition is all too ...