A Virus and a Worm: Lessons Learned from SirCam and Code Red in a University Environment

Viruses and worms are two types of malware that we heard a lot from in the summer of 2001. Two specimens, one from each of these forms of malware, were released a few days apart in July 2001, keeping security personnel busy and generating a lot of coverage in the press. In this text we will cover impacts felt and lessons learned from these two incidents in the university environment where the author recently started working as a computer security analyst.