Eye on Microsoft: Eye on Conficker, More Twitter Malware
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-11-03 12:26:12 UTC
- Modified: 2009-11-03 12:26:12 UTC
Summary: Windows security issues show no signs of abatement
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Conficker, Still Infecting Windows Machines a Year Later, Remains an Enigma (also see:
Conficker Bounty Did Not Work, Windows Zombies Still Run Rampant)
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Worm Infections Explode Thanks to Conficker and Taterf
The volume of worm infections exploded in the first half of 2009, compared with the second half of 2008, according to Microsoft. In volume seven of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv7), the Redmond company indicates that Conficker and Taterf have made worm infections second only to those caused by miscellaneous Trojans. According to the software giant, worms such as Conficker and Taterf are designed to exploit unsecured file shares, as well as infect removable storage devices, while spreading from one machine to another. Microsoft warned that, unlike home users, enterprise IT environments were more exposed to the threat presented by worms because of unsecured file shares and removable storage.
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Microsoft security report shows worms are returning
Microsoft's latest security intelligence report shows a resurgence in worms, although rogue security software also remains a big issue.
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Trick or Tweet? Malware Abundant in Twitter URLs
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Comments
Needs Sunlight
2009-11-03 15:24:34
Best of all, these removable storage devices that plague the enterprise environment are almost the entirely the result of workers desperate to exchange work files while subjected to a Microsoft Infrastructure Solution. Windows Server just plain doesn't cut it as a file server. The end result is that desk jockeys wander from room to room with a cluster of usb compact flash dongles acting as sneakernet-surrogates for the missing operational network file system.
Forget 'terrorists', M$ boosters are doing more dollar damage than any shoebomber or backpacking tunnelbahn pedestrian.
What'll M$€ do if these enterprise-enabled monkeys with usb sticks jockey out of being M$ consumers and into being Samba users? Then business will have to figure out what to do if they start getting more than 4 productive hours of work per employee per week?