● 04.15.09

●● Week in (In)Security: Links

Posted in Microsoft, Security, Windows at 3:16 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

• One in ten PCs still vulnerable to Conficker exploit

Data from enterprise users of Sophos’s Endpoint Assessment Test, which checks the state of Windows PC patching and anti-virus protection, suggest 11 per cent of users have failed to install the MS08-067 patch that guards against the vulnerability exploited by Conficker. The figures come from scans run since the start of the year.

• Forget Conficker, there’s a new threat driving past your computer!

Security warnings about the impending Conficker worm attacks on computers around the globe have been with us for a while now, and as iTWire reported just a few days ago, while the predicted apocalypse didn’t engulf the world after all, the worm’s still out there. But, be warned, we’re now in the midst of a new security threat of large-scale proportions, according to Kapersky!

• Cyber Wars: Turn out the lights, the party’s over

Is the power grid under cyberattack? U.S. spooks say yes. Better hunker down before Russia or China pulls the plug.

This relates to a recent post about the power grid. There is also Mikeyy, which is covered here.

Twitter was hit with at least three different worm attacks that started Saturday and continued into Sunday, the micro-blogging service acknowledged as it promised users it would review its coding practices.Michael “Mikeyy” Mooney, the 17-year-old creator of the StalkDaily Twitter-copycat site, has admitted creating the worms.

More information can be found in:

Twitter overrun by weekend of powerful worm attacksTeen claims responsibility for disrupting TwitterFrugal Friday: Conficker Strikes, Infrastructure Terrorism, Sun Microsystems, Debian BSD, Sourceforge

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