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August 2, 2001

Code Red threat alive and growing beyond U.S. borders
The Code Red worm, its impact so far confined mainly
to the United States, could start to target vulnerable
computers in other parts of the world over the next few
days, experts said of Thursday. Some 120,000 computer
servers had been corrupted by the worm, the vast majority
of then in the United States, according to Internet
Security Systems, an Atlanta-based company that tracks
the spread of computer viruses. One casualty was the
Pentagon's computer network.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/022817.htm
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-6741564-0.html

DOD shuts out worm, public
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0730/web-dodred-08-02-01.asp
Singing the blues over Code Red
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/specialreport/0,12737,6020700,00.html
Code Red hits some Internet servers, threat remains
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1381751l.htm
Code Red threat tailing off
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1469000/1469971.stm
'Code Red' worm 'minimized' -- for now
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/08/02/code.red.worm/index.html
Code Red Infections Down To A Few Thousand An Hour
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168632.html
Net security fends off worm attack
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/codered02.htm

Companies 'not liable' for Code Red attacks
Legal experts say that businesses will not be liable if
their servers become infected by the Code Red worm and
inadvertently attack other corporate servers. Companies
that inadvertently spread the Code Red worm to other
corporate servers cannot be held liable for causing
an Internet attack, say British legal experts.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2092454,00.html

Website says virus leaked Ukrainian secret documents
A Ukrainian Web site said on Thursday it had received
secret documents from the administration of President
Leonid Kuchma due to a computer virus that infected
government computers and e-mailed it the files. ``The
Sircam virus, having infected the computers in the
presidential administration, is bombarding our
editorial department with their documents,'' said
the ForUm news Web site (www.for-ua.com).
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1381988l.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/08/02/ukraine.sircam/index.html

SirCam tops virus charts for July
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2092491,00.html
SirCam worm still spreading documents
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6759035.html
SirCam worm enjoys virus gang bang
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/20789.html

Cybercrime expertise listed online
State and local law enforcement agencies are going to
the Internet in order to fight computer-related crime
more effectively. The National Association of Attorneys
General is pulling together a list of people responsible
for investigating and prosecuting cybercrime in their
particular jurisdictions, and who can provide assistance
to law officers seeking electronic evidence stored
outside their states.
http://www.civic.com/civic/articles/2001/0730/web-crime-08-02-01.asp

Four forge alliance to fight Asia-Pacific cybercrime
A Singapore security company has formed an alliance
with Australian and US firms to help businesses fight
cybercrime in the Asia-Pacific region, a spokesman said.
CISCO Computer Security signed the agreement with
Australia-based Vectra Corp, US-based New Technologies
Inc and e-Cop.net Pte Ltd, another Singapore company,
he said on Monday. Although no price was disclosed,
CISCO projected a revenue stream of S$60mil by the
third year of operation.
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2001/8/2/business/02b07ebs

Breaking the cycle: Code Red and beyond
Over the last few weeks, the Code Red worm exploited
a hole in Microsoft's Internet Information Server.
Code Red infected as many as 359,000 systems in about
six days--one of the fastest-spreading worms ever.
Despite a large government alert, press conferences
and a massive scramble to install patches across
Microsoft systems, the worm was still able to relaunch
itself within tens of thousands of additional machines
when it reappeared on July 31. Code Red is not a
revolutionary technique in hacking--it's just the most
recent and widely publicized security threat to take
advantage of a software flaw to damage the Internet
infrastructure.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1276-210-6745298-1.html

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