I was attending the University of Phoenix online, but decided to transfer over to Colorado Technical University Online instead. Today was the first day of my classes there, and it seems like it will be similar to UOP. Why am I posting this today? For two reasons. 1) to inspire […]
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Free security awareness training on-line from InfraGard – isc I’m posting this because it’s a good seminar for corporations to show their employees. At one of my previous employments (Monsanto), we were required to do Computer Based Training and shortly before I left, they were just getting started on educating […]
April 1 has come and gone. Office and friendly April Fools pranks happened and people had a good laugh about them. The media had hyped this April 1 as the day the Conficker worm would pull the ultimate prank though. Did it happen? The media would say “No” but I […]
Because I’m relying on advertising and affiliations in order to generate some revenue for my blog, I believe that I need to incorporate a Privacy Policy to inform my readers of their rights. First and foremost, I, the owner of this blog, do not collect any information about you (the […]
I’m not sure if this is connected to the Conficker worm or any worm for that matter. However it’s definitely an interesting coincidence or a really good April Fools joke played by Twitter. A lot of people are waking up this morning to find that they suddenly have a bunch […]
Well, it’s officially April 1 in some parts of the world. As of this posting, it’s 1:35 am GMT. I have a monitor in my System Tray that gives me an idea what the status of the Internet is (the Internet Traffic Report widget on the sidebar). Right now, it’s […]
Detecting Conficker | The Honeynet Project The Honeynet Project has a simple scanner on their site for detecting the Conficker infections. It’s mainly recommended for Network Administrators, however you can use it for home systems (more aptly home networks). They have some technical information about what you will see […]
Update on Conficker.C – Security Labs Alert Websense has a fairly comprehensive blog post about Conficker up at the link above. There are some technical details in it, so I’ll do my best to clear it up a little. I strongly encourage you to read their article as well […]
CBS 60 Minutes covers Conficker, malware epidemic | Zero Day | ZDNet.com ZDNet (A CBS affiliate) has a video from 60 Minutes that covers the Conficker worm. Lesley Stahl does a pretty good job of covering both sides of the story and not making it entirely anti-Internet and doom-and-gloom. […]
Everyone seems to be doing daily or hourly updates on the Conficker worm. Even if it’s only action on April 1 is to start looking at 500 domains instead of 250 (as it does now), it’s still the biggest thing happening in the Cyber World right now. It’s not doom-and-gloom. […]