This week’s column is about the Code Red worm. First, however, I’d like to talk about microbes. Millions of these microscopic invaders attack major government figures every day. Do you realize ...

There could be no Code Red, or dozens of other worms that have plagued the Internet in recent years, if it were not for buffer overflows - programming bugs that have been around since the dawn of ...

Nicolas Weaver at UC Berkeley has written a paper proposing that virus writers constructing some future Code Red-like worm add a list of 10,000 to 50,000 "well connected" Internet servers ...

But! Taking showers and other activities are okay because who doesn’t like bathing with itty bitty curly red worms. Gross. But all is okay! Apparently, red worms popping up in water isn’t a ...