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Trojans, viruses, worms: How does malware get on PCs and Macs?
What's the best way to deal with malicious software on PCs and Macs? You can't answer that question until you know how malware gets installed in the first place. Here's a reality check.
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From Gimmiv to Conficker: The lucrative MS08-067 flaw
GENEVA -- The critical MS08-067 vulnerability used by the Conficker worm to build a powerful botnet continues to be a lucrative security hole for cyber criminals. During a presentation at the...
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Security 101: Look back to advance
The security landscape may be rapidly evolving, but the clue to standing a better chance in the fight against threats could be in looking back, not forward.
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Absolute Software downplays BIOS rootkit claims
Following a flood of calls from customers, the company behind the LoJack anti-theft service which researchers from Core Security Technologies recently portrait as a security threat, issued a...
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Manchester City Council pays $2.4m in Conficker clean up costs
How severe can the impact of the Conficker worm be on a single city council that has apparently not implemented basic security solutions in place? Pretty severe according to a recently released a...
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Kaspersky impressed with Conficker botnet's slickness
Cybercrime fighter Eugene Kaspersky can't help but be impressed by the slick operations behind the Conficker botnet, and says that it could have been worse.
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Red tape keeps Conficker on medical devices
The Conficker Internet virus has infected important computerized medical devices, but governmental red tape interfered with their repair.
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Report: Conficker in attack mode
According to the Xinhua News Agency, the Conficker worm is now reportedly installing a second mass-mailing virus into already infected machines.
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Conficker infected critical hospital equipment
The Conficker worm infected several hundred machines and critical medical equipment in an undisclosed number of hospitals recently, a security expert said at the RSA Conference.
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Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion
In a recent blog post, the Cyber Secure Institute claims that based on their previous studies into the average cost of such malware attacks, the economic loss due to the Conficker worm could be as...
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Many still vulnerable to Conficker
Despite all the warnings, an antivirus firm estimates that 11 percent of PCs in use still have not applied the patch that would prevent the Conficker worm from invading their systems.
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Making sense of the latest Conficker update
Several of you have emailed me for information about the latest Conficker update. Consider this post an update to my "no bull" guide to Conficker.
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Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business model
The Conficker botnet has stirred to life, using its peer-to-peer communication system to update itself and download scareware (fake anti-virus programs) to millions of infected Windows machines....
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Fake "Conficker Infection Alert" spam campaign circulating
Researchers at Marshal8e6's TRACElabs have intercepted a spam campaign that's issuing bogus "Conficker Infection Alerts" and redirecting users to rogue security software upon clicking on the...
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Conficker worm's copycat Neeris spreading over IM
Imitation has always been a form of flattery, and that's particularly true for the cybercrime ecosystem. From the lone Chinese cybercriminals releasing DIY tools for generating malware actively...
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Eyeballing Conficker with eye-charts and maps
As expected, the April 1st activation date for the Conficker worm passed without much noise but, as Microsoft and others are explaining, the botnet associated with the worm is very much alive --...
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Conficker an April Fool's joke? Maybe not
Just because the Conficker worm didn't launch an attack on April Fools Day doesn't mean it still isn't a threat. But it did make the world painfully aware of the penalty for not keeping its...
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Conficker tracking - all's quiet, so far
So it's been April 1st for almost 18 hours now in New Zealand and it's the early hours of April 1st on the east coast of the United States. So what's going on? So far -- nothing.
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Are you ready for Conficker?
So tomorrow is April 1st and the sky will be falling shortly. We all know that the 4 forms of the Conficker worm are out there, ready to do something tomorrow that will probably be a pain in the...
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The "no bull" guide to Conficker
I usually have a pretty good idea of how widespread a particular piece of malware is by the number of incidents of infection (or reports of infection) that I come across. But when it comes to the...
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