ZDNet looks at the Apache worm and other network attacks. "The situation is made worse by a worm discovered over the weekend that makes use of the Apache flaw, a vulnerability in the mechanism for handling "Chunked Encoding". The worm is thought to be capable of spreading only to Web servers running the FreeBSD operating system--an open-source variant of Unix--and which have not had a patch applied for the recent flaw. Although few people have reported the worm, it is thought to be infecting vulnerable Web servers worldwide."

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