{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Dead Internet Almanac","title":"July 13: Searchlights on Port 80","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":548,"description":"Code Red turned a patched Microsoft IIS flaw into one of the early web’s defining infrastructure scares. What began as strange packet logs on Friday the 13th became a self-spreading worm that used a vulnerable Index Server component to seize Windows web servers with Local System privileges, then made each infected machine hunt for the next. The result was a glimpse of the internet as a living weather system: office servers, university boxes, and small-business machines suddenly moving together under hostile code.\n\nThe episode follows the frantic overnight analysis by eEye researchers, the caffeine-and-disassembly origin of the worm’s name, and the crude “Hacked by Chinese!” defacement that fueled speculation without proving attribution. More than vandalism, Code Red exposed the permanent gap between disclosure and patching: Microsoft had already warned users and released a fix, but enough servers remained open for the worm to map the web’s neglect in real time.\n\nRead the original article: https://medium.com/@dia_91230/july-13-searchlights-on-port-80-1dffce97ddd3\n\nSubscribe to The Dead Internet Almanac: https://buttondown.com/dead-internet-almanac","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0T0Z9X69zNfYqQ8Z8xV4SB06Vk-a5Z4I4iH6CPQMsiQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yYmJj/OTNlYmM2M2UxYmZl/MDBjZTRiMDlhZTRm/MjI4NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}