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Archive for July 2nd, 2009

Spam Speculates Michael Jackson’s Murder

Michael Jackson has been dead for a week already, but there are still a lot of speculations regarding his death. The spam runs are plenty as well — a Michael Jackson-related spam was seen bearing the subject Who killed Michael Jackson?, coming from a sender named x-files.
The spam message suggests that the icon was killed, [...]

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Spam Speculates Michael Jackson’s Murder

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Manchester City Council pays $2.4m in Conficker clean up costs

How severe can the impact of the Conficker worm be on a single city council that has apparently not implemented basic security solutions in place?
Pretty severe according to a recently released a report entitled “Service interruption resulting from ICT disruption in February 2009” which details the financial costs of a Conficker incident affecting Manchester City [...]

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Three Months Later: Where’s DOWNAD?

Exactly three months ago, the whole IT sector was waiting with bated breath for April 1. The latest DOWNAD/Conficker variant–WORM_DOWNAD.KK–was poised to strike. We know that on that day, it would attempt to access 500 of 50,000 websites and download new malicious files. This led to fears–somewhat misplaced–that new, possibly damaging payloads could cause severe [...]

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Three Months Later: Where’s DOWNAD?

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