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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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Worm Uses Social Engineering

By On January 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

A new worm has hit the Internet and its taking its toll on computers worldwide. It has been reported that over 9 million computers have already been infected.

The worm called “Downandup”, “Conficker” or “Kido” by different anti-virus vendors uses the Microsoft vulnerability which I blogged about here (Worm Takes Advantage Of Microsoft [...]

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Worm Takes Advantage Of Microsoft Flaw

By On October 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Just as I had predicted it would happen, there are already reports that a worm exploiting the hole in the “Server Service” has been seen in the wild. Microsoft released yesterday a critical “out-of-band” patch (MS08-067) release having known about the issue for a while.

Milw0rm, an exploit tracking Internet [...]

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