Conficker Working Group

Conficker.c infects small number of US PCs, IBM says

Computerworld, MA
Most researchers believe that's a direct response to work begun last month by the so-called Conficker Cabal -- officially known as the Conficker Working Group -- an ad hoc consortium of researchers and companies that have tried to disrupt the worm's ...

nCircle Releases Automated Coverage to Identify Systems ...

What’s Conficker going to do on April Fools' Day?

IT PRO, UK
Microsoft and the Conficker Working Group said they were taking actions to disrupt this new worm, but how serious is this threat and what are the security vendors doing about it? This sort of worry always happens with any sort of countdown or date ...

Symantec Prepares For Worm Attack On April 1

Bernama, Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 (Bernama) -- Symantec and its Conficker Working Group partners have been working hard to understand more fully what exactly can be expected on April 1, 2009. It has been determined that on April 1, W32.Downadup. ...

Conficker Detection: Let Me Count The Ways

Dark Reading, NY
Dan Kaminsky worked with some members of the Honeynet Project to develop the detection that was shared through the Conficker Working Group so that "enterprise-class scanners should already be out from Tenable (Nessus), mcafee/Foundstone, nmap, ncircle, ...

'Dangerous' computer worm no cause for alarm: Experts

Ottawa Citizen,  Canada
It has caught the attention of computer security experts for its technological brilliance and has even forced industry-wide collaboration to address the threat, dubbed the Conficker Working Group. But tools are now in place to remove the worm from any ...

Conficker : Is it for real or April Fool’s joke?

JaiBihar, India
It’s versatile, well-designed and run by what some experts believe is a well-organized crime group in China. Conficker.C, the new major variant of the worm, will “do something” on April 1. On October 23, 2008, Microsoft released a critical security ...

Group launches strategy to block Conficker worm from .ca domain

CBC.ca, Canada
He added that the group has been working with internet security experts and registries around the world, some of whom are using similar strategies against the worm. Conficker infects computers running various versions of Microsoft Windows, ...

Experts Team Up To Battle Conficker Botnet

RedOrbit, TX
Conficker has been consistently updated since last year, and an informal global alliance of computer security firms and a network governance group known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICAAN) are now working hard to address ...
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