Sunday, January 25, 2009

15 million PC's infected with Confliker

Update:

Apparently this thing is sooo out of control.. Microsoft now has a bounty on it.

Microsoft dangles $250,000 carrot for capture of Conficker creator

15 million PC's infected with Confliker

All I can say about this one is that it takes advantage of weak passwords like "123456" and "password".

wow.. I'm not using those passwords for any systems again.

update: Forget about what I just said about easy passwords, this sucker has a built in password cracker!

"The worm also has a password-cracker that is adept at cracking administrative accounts or other computers, though very strong passwords should make that much harder, Cross says."

By Ellen Messmer , Network World , 01/23/2009
Source: Network World

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