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Conficker Gets Ready To Strike

By On March 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Without a doubt the whole security professional community have their eyes on the Conficker.C variant which is designed to do something on April 1st.

So what is that something? We’ll find out within 24 hours.

What we do know is that this variant of Conficker has become better at preventing removal and others from [...]

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Step by Step In Dealing With Conficker

By On February 3, 2009 · 8 Comments

This will turn out to be a “trojan horse” literally if actions are not taken to prevent it from spreading within the corporate network.

Below are step by step instructions on mitigating the risk of the threat that “Conficker”/”Downandup” poses.

Symptoms

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Symptoms to help you determine if you are infected

Account lockout [...]

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Locking Down The Blackberry Network

By On January 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Early last year India threatened to discontinue Blackberry service if Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the Blackberry did not allow the Indian Government to monitor the Blackberry network traffic raising serious security concerns. Here are a few articles from PCWorld, InfoWorld, and CNet.

Now president-elect Barack [...]

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Microsoft Releases Emergency Patch

By On October 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The same principals behind gaining a root shell for a Unix system, apply for Windows systems allowing the attacker to execute remote code.

Today Microsoft release an emergency patch with a maximum severity rating of “Critical”, for Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP1, SP2 and SP3, and Windows 2003; and [...]

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