ShareA malicious software program known as Conficker is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, according to computer security experts. Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, was expected to wreak havoc on April 1 when it was due to be activated, but it failed to cause many problems. Internet virus experts, however, claim it is now quietly turning thousands of personal [...]

ShareFrom the BNO Newsroom. Reporting by Jake Bialer and Michael van Poppel. UPDATE: A second worm, created by the same author, has infected a number of Twitter profiles. Click here for our updated story. Brooklyn, NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) — Mikeyy Mooney, the 17-year-old creator of StalkDaily.com from Brooklyn, has admitted responsibility for the Twitter worm that rapidly spread through Twitter [...]

ShareToday, Mikey Worm hits Twitter.com once again and the recommendation is avoid searching for any twitter profiles right now. Twitter will update the sanitization process completed ! get the updates from http://status.twitter.com/ From Twitter Updates: Wily Weekend Worms On a weekend normally reserved for bunnies, a worm took center stage. A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program sometimes [...]

ShareThe Conficker worm is receiving a lot of attention because of its vast scale (millions of machines infected) and advanced update mechanisms. Thanks to research by Tillmann Werner and Felix Leder of The Honeynet Project and implementation work by Ron Bowes, David Fifield, Brandon Enright, and Fyodor, a new Nmap release is here which can remotely scan for and detect infected machines. To scan for [...]

ShareCERIAS: Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, provides a lecture on Changing Consumer Behavior for Internet Safety. An approach that looks into privacy and security issues in internet. Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA