-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
RailCorp wrestles with Conficker
,----[ Quote ]
| RailCorp has confirmed that some of its workstations had been
| infected with the Conficker virus, although it insisted that
| the virus had caused no operational impact.
`----
http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/RailCorp-wrestles-with-Conficker/0,339028227,339298913,00.htm?feed=rss
Proof that Hotmail users are generally stupid:
Hotmail phish exposes most common passwords
,----[ Quote ]
| Neil O'Neil, a digital forensics investigator at secure
| payments firm The Logic Group, found that "123456" cropped up
| on the list 64 times. There were 18 uses of the second most
| popular password, "123456789", in the list.
`----
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/07/hotmail_phish_password/
Recent:
Internet meltdown threat: Conficker worm refuses to turn
,----[ Quote ]
| The brightest minds in technology and government are
| finding it "almost impossible" to defeat the Conficker
| worm, which has infected more than 5 million computers and,
| experts say, could be used to knock down the internet in
| entire countries.
|
| The worm, first detected in November last year, spreads
| rapidly to computers through a flaw in the Windows
| operating system.
`----
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/internet-meltdown-threat-conficker-worm-refuses-to-turn-20090922-fzlh.html
Related:
Bots rule in cyberspace
,----[ Quote ]
| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
`----
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkrNEwAACgkQU4xAY3RXLo595wCeN3ajo/jLCXxv2kpoUy6f/p7y
z0QAnjwouH37dUdTRb2Mii4yvN/FaTeO
=JmjF
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
