All Entries Tagged With: "worm"
Botnet Growth Worldwide
Several organizations monitor the growth of compromised systems and botnet growth. According to McAfee “Cybercriminals have taken control of almost 12 million new IP addresses in Q1 2009, a 50 percent increase over the previous quarter. The United States is now home to the largest percentage of botnet-infected computers, hosting 18 percent of all [...]
Hospitals are infected with Conficker
There is a very interesting article discussing how Conficker spread to medical devices and systems in many hospitals in the U.S. and abroad. Many are still baffled by how some of these systems even got infected in the first place. The devices include those of MRI machines, heart monitoring systems, and more. [...]
The Botnet Threat
There is a great post on the threat from Botnets here. The text is below:
Botnets have been around for a long time. For those not familiar, a botnet is a number of compromised computers put under the command and control of a single individual or group. Individually compromised computers are known as [...]
Conficker Update
Conficker infected 700 computers at the University of Utah including several hospital systems. An organization like that should know better and have policies and procedures in place for patching…especially when patches have been available for over 6 months. There just really isn’t any excuse.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30179873/
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12118088
The Easiest Way to Detect Conficker Compromised Systems
I was impressed with a method that some have developed to detect (in a very simple way) if your system is infected with Conficker. Certainly there are many tools out there, but nothing quite as simple as this. Go out to this website. Click on the “Eye Chart” link. Based on [...]
Worm Spreading via Mobile Device
The US DOD is having issues with the Agent.btz worm.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/army-bans-usb-d.html
The problem has gotten so bad that they have banned the use of all portable media while they get a handle on the situation. The malware infecting the computers is called Agent.btz, a variant of the SillyFDC worm. It spreads by copying itself onto USB drives and other [...]