A handful of Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle team have gotten together to reminisce about the early days when the web was the wild west. The article has never-before-seen video footage and interviews with many of SDL's key players. Interesting stuff.
It was 2 a.m. on Saturday, July 13, 2001, when Microsoft’s then head of security response, Steve Lipner, awoke to a call from cybersecurity specialist Russ Cooper. Lipner was told a nasty piece of malware called "Code Red" was spreading at an astonishing rate. Code Red was a worm — a malicious computer program that spreads quickly by copying itself to other computers across the Internet. And it was vicious.
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