Source: Dancho Danchev @ ZDNet 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 high as $9.1 billion. Despite that their analysis also considered a much limited infection rate [...]
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Conficker’s $9.1 billion estimated economic cost
Sunday, April 26th, 2009Google updates Chrome due to issue in IE tab security
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009Source: Sean Michael Kerner @ InternetNews Google today updated its stable version of the Chrome browser to version 1.0.154.58 to fix a serious security issue. The ‘funny’ thing is the issue is triggered by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser. The issue is very serious and according to Google could potentially enable something called universal cross-site [...]
Google’s CAPTCHA experiment and the human factor
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Source: Dancho Danchev @ ZDNet Any research is prone to irrelevance if it starts with the wrong research questions, takes the wrong perspective, or in this case, attempts to fight the wrong enemy – automated bots attempting to recognize CAPTCHAs. Researchers at Google recently released a paper detailing a new CAPTCHA system consisting of correct [...]
German researchers score Conficker detection breakthrough
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Source: Ryan Naraine @ ZDNet Conficker worm squirming through the Windows operating system, security researchers at the Honeynet Project have scored a major breakthrough, finding a way to fingerprint the malware on infected networks. Now, with the help of Dan Kaminsky and Rich Mogull, off-the-shelf network scanning vendors have the ability remotely (and anonymously) detect [...]
The Carbon Footprint of Spam
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Source: David Marcus @ McAfee Today McAfee has released The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam Report. The study looks at the global energy expended to create, store, view, and filter spam across 11 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The report correlates the electricity [...]
Conficker worm hits University of Utah computers
Monday, April 13th, 2009Source: The Associated Press – Salt Lake City University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers, including those at the school’s three hospitals. University health sciences spokesman Chris Nelson said the outbreak of the Conficker worm, which can slow computers and steal personal information, was first detected Thursday. [...]
Conficker Removal – Disinfection Tool
Friday, April 10th, 2009Source: ThreatPost/ZDNet How to fight network worm Conficker Symptoms of network infection. 1. Network traffic volume increases if there are infected PCs in the network, because network attack starts from these PCs. 2. Anti-Virus product with enabled Intrusion Detection System informs of the attack Intrusion.Win.NETAPI.buffer-overflow.exploit Short description of the Net-Worm.Win32.Kido family. 1. It creates files [...]
Conficker botnet installs scareware on infected computers
Friday, April 10th, 2009Source: Ryan Naraine @ ZDnet 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. The Conficker update comes a week after a heavily-hyped April 1st activation date and provides the first sign of the motivation behind this [...]
#1 Internet Threat, Conficker, Gets A Fresh Update!
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Security researchers say a worm that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defenses while also trying to attack more machines. Source: Jeremy Kirk @ CIO Security researchers say a worm that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defenses while also trying to attack [...]
Lirba Sotnot Virus – Worse than Conficker Worm?
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009NOTE: Yes, this was a April Fool’s joke. – Ryan Source: Confidential Reports have been pouring in from all over about a new worm released today with devastating effects. Some say that the actions taken by the worm can lead to worse damages than what has and continues to be caused by the already notorious [...]
