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Laying the IT Security Foundation - Corralling Conficker and Other Threats in an Evolved Environment
White Paper However in today's ever-changing IT environment, sophisticated threats such as Conficker worm continue to evolve and keep security professionals in an unending game of cat and mouse. Prevent threats such as... [29 Oct 2009]
Who's afraid of malware? Four in 10 have never had a virus
News The news comes against a background of high-profile infections, with a number of public sector bodies being hit by the Conficker worm. Conficker has in the past infected several public sector computer... [05 Oct 2009]
Hackers target fake ads to steal IDs
News Typically, the site hosting the rogue alerts has been compromised, or a worm, like Conficker, distributes the alerts directly to computers. Instead of hacking into major online sites to embed malware, malicious hackers... [16 Sep 2009]
Five critical Windows updates arrive on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
News These vulnerabilities are the most likely to be exploited by malicious code and are two of the best worm candidates that we've seen since Conficker," Marcus said in a statement. Microsoft on Tuesday issued five critical... [09 Sep 2009]
Internet Special Ops - Stalking Badness Through Data Mining
White Paper The paper will provide an overview of what data mining is, and provide several examples of how it is used to identify fast flux botnets and how the same techniques were used to enumerate Conficker. Today's Internet... [29 Aug 2009]
Windows 7: One year to try before you buy
News The company said this decision had been taken in the light of recent malware, such as the Conficker virus, that uses USB memory sticks as an attack vector. Microsoft made the first release candidate of Windows 7... [30 Apr 2009]
When IT security becomes a gothic horror story
Comment As one of Poe's recurring themes was premature burial, should we be on the lookout for the security threats that we thought we had defeated, that may even now be about to burst from their coffins and cause more havoc (like... [21 Apr 2009]
Browser hijacks and holey software skyrockets
News Infections of Conficker, also known as 'Downadup', have been particularly strong in Asia Pacific and Latin America, areas with some of the highest rates of software piracy. Conficker A report released... [14 Apr 2009]
Conficker wakes up with payload for the infected
News The Conficker worm started to update itself on Wednesday via peer-to-peer, and dropped a payload on infected computers, according to Trend Micro. On Tuesday night Trend Micro researchers noticed a new file in the Windows... [09 Apr 2009]
Should you still be scared of malware?
News While the recent Conficker worm may have turned out to be a damp squib, enterprises are still very much on their guard against malware. Asked whether viruses are still a genuine threat to corporate IT security, 11 out of... [06 Apr 2009]
Conficker: So what's the moral of the story?
News 1 April has come and gone and in the minds of many people the Conficker worm turned out to be a joke instead of the major internet security event that might have been envisioned. In a sense, the whole... [03 Apr 2009]
Conficker virus hits Parliament PCs
News Computer systems at Westminster have been infected by the Conficker virus. Although the parliamentary spokesman refused to confirm which variant of virus had infected the systems, Microsoft last year issued a patch... [27 Mar 2009]
Microsoft puts $250,000 bounty on worm-creator's head
News Microsoft last week said it is offering a $250,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for creating the Conficker internet worm that has infected millions of PCs. [16 Feb 2009]
PCs at five hospitals struck down by virus
News The Conficker B virus infected 800 out of the 7,000 PCs at five hospitals in Sheffield, leading to a "small number" of patient appointments being cancelled, according to a spokeswoman for the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals... [21 Jan 2009]
