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The author of the malicious Code Red worm has been traced to a university in China, according to US officials.
A new and possibly more virulent version of the "Code Red" computer worm was detected circulating the Internet over the weekend, attacking machines and leaving them vulnerable to other intruders, a leading Internet security site reported.
Almost four out of five PDAs have been left unprotected against hacker attacks, a ZDNet Australia reader poll has found.
Research group Gartner is warning enterprises to "immediately" replace their Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) server software with a more secure server application, following attacks on IIS by the worms Code Red and Nimda.
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