If Lance Spitzner and the Honeynet Project have their way, network defenders will get sweeter on the "honeypot"--a traditional method of detecting online intruders.
The Code Red worm has infected more than 350,000 servers, and proven that individual, insecure systems can quickly become a global problem. ZDNet examines the origins of the worm and discusses where it will go from here.
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