On July 19, 2001 a worm propagated itself through the Internet to infect over 250,000 computers in an unheralded nine hours, causing a flood of data that slowed the Internet by 40 percent. The website Incidents.org, which is run by the SANS Institute and is designated to monitor network threats, jumped from a green to an orange threat level - which is the second highest threat level in their four level ranking system - due to the threat of the worm. The worm, which was dubbed “Code Red” after the caffeinated cherry flavored Mt. Dew beverage that the members of eEye Digital Security consumed while decompiling the worm’s code, is unique because it incorporates hacker techniques for attacking computer systems. Not only does the worm spread to other computers via random IP range scans, but it also has the ability to deface web pages, as well as launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on an IP address which houses the Whitehouse web page.
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