The Enemy Within (article on Conficker)

[cybershark]

When the Conficker computer “worm” was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators. It uses an encryption code so sophisticated that only a very few people could have deployed it. For the first time ever, the cyber-security elites of the world have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers, trying to find Conficker’s creators and defeat them. The cops are failing. And now the worm lies there, waiting …

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[aapkop]

The whole article makes for some good reading.Just shows that there are some wack ppl out there.

 

[Mars]

Dons tinfoil hat...

 

[The_Unbeliever]

That is one poxy worm

Wish I could find the creator(s) responsible and drop them off in the middle of Soweto...

 

[aapkop]

That is one poxy worm

Wish I could find the creator(s) responsible and drop them off in the middle of Soweto...

Agree

 

[Mr.Jax]

That is one poxy worm

Wish I could find the creator(s) responsible and drop them off in the middle of Soweto...

Agree too. My antivir catches it at least 3 times a day and no matter what I do, it comes back and back and back....sigh... (our IT dept sucks?)

 

[syntax]

Agree too. My antivir catches it at least 3 times a day and no matter what I do, it comes back and back and back....sigh... (end users suck?)

There, fixed it for ya. End users make security a nightmare. They complain when policies are enforced, ignore them at any possible chance and then complain when they lose data/time to virus outbreaks.

That flash drive u carrying, that is basically the office slut that gets plugged into everything, that causes more issues than you could believe.

 

[D.B.Cooper]

I can think of so many, many useful things I could do with something like that. Give me control of that botnet for one day I'll be able to retire the next.