Conficker: ‘Headless Botnet’ Still Infecting Windows Users Researchers say the notorious Windows worm has created a “headless botnet” – but one that continues to maintain a hold of millions of computers. A year after the infamous April 1 doomsday deadline, the investigation into the masterminds of the worm continues. Read the rest of this article [...]
Serial killer Fred West created a Facebook Fan Page for Graham Cluley – should he be worried? Two years ago someone posted a mock up photograph of Graham (Security expert from Sophos) along with offensive materials on Facebook indicating that he might be a pedophile. As a consequence of the perpetrators actions some people threatened [...]
Twitter hack claimed by Iranian group The hack that occurred on Twitter itself is significant beyond any wider political motives. It shows that what is the world’s fastest growing communication network is rather insecure. Being able to change the DNS records of a website means that rather than simply redirecting users to a vanity page [...]
According to Wikipedia “Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system.” As a computer owner, it is up to each one of us to insure that we are not adding to the global security threat and turning our computers into hosts for cybercrime. By patching [...]
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