Sick of hearing about "swine flu"? Good, then read this blog instead. It strikes me that there are more than the usual uncanny parallels between these tiny molecular machines, aka viruses, and the tiny digital machines, aka viruses or worms; not the least of which is people's reaction to them, viz., out of sight, out of mind.
Showing posts with label Conficker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conficker. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Conficker Worm Defense for Enterprises
A blog-post over at ZDNet describes how enterprise data-ops can use network scanners to detect and disarm the Conficker Worm vulnerability on Microsoft Windows platforms, before it potentially wakes up on April 1st and begins to disable your anti-virus software.
One wonders whether the ZDNet writer was suffering from subliminal puritanism. The name of the worm is Conficker, not ConfLicker (sic). Presumably, the name is derived from the conjunction of Con, as in confidence trick (to enable it) and ficken, the German F-bomb (when it disables you).
Confession: Aye, 'twas I who corrected the ZDNet scribe. :-)
See the US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-088A, for more information.
One wonders whether the ZDNet writer was suffering from subliminal puritanism. The name of the worm is Conficker, not ConfLicker (sic). Presumably, the name is derived from the conjunction of Con, as in confidence trick (to enable it) and ficken, the German F-bomb (when it disables you).
Confession: Aye, 'twas I who corrected the ZDNet scribe. :-)
See the US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-088A, for more information.
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