Timeline Friday 13 July 2001

Events on Friday 13 July 2001 1

• 2001 Code Red worm spreads across the internet Self-replicating attack hits web servers In July 2001 the Code Red worm exploited a flaw in Microsoft's IIS web server software, infecting hundreds of thousands of machines within days and defacing pages with the text Hacked by Chinese. It also directed denial-of-service traffic at a White House address. It was among the first worms to draw sustained mainstream coverage.