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Article | 23/04/2010 Conficker a year later is a 'loaded gun'
It's been about a year since Conficker/Downadup hit in 2009, and although the threat didn't turn out to be as grave as it had the potential to be, the...
Article | 8/04/2010 1-in-10 Windows PCs still vulnerable to Conficker worm
More than a year after doomsday reports hinted that the Conficker worm would bring down the Internet, one-in-10 Windows PCs still have not been patche...
Article | 19/02/2010 Protect Your business from Kneber-style botnets
A report from security research firm NetWitness about a malicious botnet dubbed Kneber has been the focus of a fair amount of media attention, but mos...
Article | 16/01/2010 Conficker still going strong, Akamai finds
Russia and Brazil are now the top hotspots for global Internet attack traffic, Net giant Akamai has said in its latest threat report, placing most of ...
Article | 17/12/2009 Chinese ISP hosts 1 in 7 Conficker infections
Security experts have known for months that some countries have had a harder time battling the Conficker worm than others. But thanks to data released...
Article | 31/10/2009 After one year, Conficker infects 7 million computers
The Conficker worm has passed a dubious milestone. It has now infected more than 7 million [m] computers, security experts estimate.
Article | 29/09/2009 Pressure on Microsoft, as Windows attack now public
Hackers have publicly released new attack code that exploits a critical bug in the Windows operating system, putting pressure on Microsoft to fix the ...
Article | 9/07/2009 Newest IE bug could be next Conficker, says researcher
The critical bug that Microsoft confirmed Monday but has yet to patch is a prime candidate for another Conficker-scale attack, a security researcher s...
Article | 21/05/2009 Conficker still infecting 50,000 PCs per day
The Conficker worm is still infecting systems at a brisk rate and continues to snag computers in Fortune 1000 companies, according to security researc...
Article | 1/05/2009 Microsoft doctors AutoRun in Windows 7 to stymie Conficker
Prompted by the spread of the Conficker worm through infected USB drives, Microsoft Corp. will unveil changes in next week's public Windows 7 Release ...
Article | 27/04/2009 Conficker hype a 'problem,' says FBI cyber-chief
Mainstream media hype leading up to the Conficker worm's April 1 software update may have distracted people from legitimate cyber threats, the U.S. Fe...
Article | 27/04/2009 Conficker.E to self-destruct on May 5th?
The evolution of the multi-faceted Conficker worm is expected to take another turn this May 5th when the latest version, Conficker.E, will simply self...
Article | 23/04/2009 Researchers turn Conficker's own P2P protocol against itself
Security researchers have updated a free tool that sniffs out the notorious Conficker worm on infected PCs by using the same peer-to-peer (P2P) protoc...
Article | 14/04/2009 1 in 5 Windows PCs still hackable by Conficker
Although the media blitz about the Conficker worm prompted a significant number of enterprise users to finally fix a six-month-old Windows bug, about ...
Article | 11/04/2009 Conficker botnet could flood Web with spam
Windows PCs infected with the Conficker worm have turned into junk mail-spewing robots capable of sending billions of spam messages a day, a security ...

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