Some conficker lessons learned – isc The Internet Storm Center has some good lessons learned about the Conficker worm. They’re posted from an academic institution, which ran into the infection recently. Mainly these reiterate the need for proper patching, making sure your antivirus and antispyware are updated, and disabling autorun […]
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It’s been a busy week for the virus creators and the antivirus companies. And we’re all the collateral damage. On April 8, Conficker finally got the update that the world was dreading 8 days earlier. As you know, the Internet didn’t end though. Then over the Easter weekend, Twitter was […]
First Conficker Update After April 1st – Security Labs Alert Websense Security is reporting that Conficker has received an update via P2P. As of this reporting, they haven’t determined what the update contains, but are analyzing the file and monitoring Conficker’s communication. I’ll keep looking into this development and […]
As reported by Microsoft and Websense in the past few days, an old worm called Neeris has a new look. The people behind the worm have updated it to use some of Conficker’s methods and techniques. Neeris was originally (and still is) an IRC Bot that traveled through MSN Messenger. […]
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 […]
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. […]