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  10 security nasties of the last decade

• Conficker: Microsoft says two basic security steps might have stopped infections

  By Tim Greene | 26 April, 2012 02:39

  If businesses and consumers stuck to security basics, they could have avoided all cases of Conficker worm infection detected on 1.7 million systems by Microsoft researchers in the last half of 2011.

• Microsoft: Conficker still the top corporate network threat

  By Tim Greene | 26 April, 2012 01:34

  Companies are still plagued by the Conficker worm, used to create botnets and spread other forms of malware, according to the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report.

• 10 security nasties of the last decade

  By ARN Staff | 04 May, 2010 15:34

  This slideshow looks at 10 of the nastiest viruses to hit our computers in the last decade and how each of them wreaked their own type of havoc for business and consumer users. From the LoveBug to Zotob and Conficker these are the viruses of your IT life.

• Conficker a year later is a 'loaded gun'

  By Kathleen Lau | 23 April, 2010 09:04

  It's been about a year since Conficker/Downadup hit in 2009, and although the threat didn't turn out to be as grave as it had the potential to be, the 6.5 million PCs that remain infected today represent what Symantec Corp. calls a "loaded gun, waiting to be fired."

• 1-in-10 Windows PCs still vulnerable to Conficker worm

  By Gregg Keizer | 08 April, 2010 10:48

  More than a year after doomsday reports hinted that the Conficker worm would bring down the Internet, one-in-10 Windows PCs still have not been patched to plug the hole the worm wriggles through, new data shows.

• Protect Your business from Kneber-style botnets

  By Tony Bradley | 19 February, 2010 12:13

  A report from security research firm NetWitness about a malicious botnet dubbed Kneber has been the focus of a fair amount of media attention, but mostly sensationalism that misses the real point.

• Conficker still going strong, Akamai finds

  By John E. Dunn | 16 January, 2010 02:01

  Russia and Brazil are now the top hotspots for global Internet attack traffic, Net giant Akamai has said in its latest threat report, placing most of the blame on the hardy Conficker worm.

• Chinese ISP hosts 1 in 7 Conficker infections

  By Robert McMillan | 17 December, 2009 19:29

  Security experts have known for months that some countries have had a harder time battling the Conficker worm than others. But thanks to data released Wednesday by Shadowserver, a volunteer-run organization, they now have a better idea of which Internet Service Providers have the biggest problem.

• Latest malware trick: outsourcing quality assurance

  By Tim Greene | 15 July, 2009 10:02

  Creators of Waledac malware enlisted the Conficker botnet as a tool to spread malware of their own, marking the first time Conficker was made available for hire, according to Cisco's mid-year security report.This was symptomatic of a wider trend Cisco noted of malware purveyors using established business practices to expand their illegal enterprises. Cisco likened the arrangement between Waledac and Conficker to a partner ecosystem, a term Cisco uses to describe its collaboration with other vendors.