Comments on: Conficker Day – April 1st – Uneventful http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/04/conficker-day-april-1st-uneventful/ Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing & Computer Security Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:04:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: c0rrect0r http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/04/conficker-day-april-1st-uneventful/#comment-140773 c0rrect0r Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:37:32 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/?p=1669#comment-140773 oldr4ver: "formally" isn't the same as "formerly". oldr4ver: “formally” isn’t the same as “formerly”.

]]> By: cbrp1r8 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/04/conficker-day-april-1st-uneventful/#comment-138937 cbrp1r8 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:18:51 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/?p=1669#comment-138937 well for the most part, everyone's had since october to protect against conficker/downadup....I personally didn't see this really being a big "y2k show" myself and I was happy to find out come yesterday that it wasn't what it was "hyped-up" to be....from a global company perspective we've been set since last november against it and have only had to worry about a few one-offs here an there...which is a "no big deal" when your talking numbers of 50-100k machines you have to worry about in a single company. Home user wise...i sorted out all my family and friends long ago...the rest of the machines i'm guessing are all non-patched pirated winboze boxes.... /shrug well for the most part, everyone’s had since october to protect against conficker/downadup….I personally didn’t see this really being a big “y2k show” myself and I was happy to find out come yesterday that it wasn’t what it was “hyped-up” to be….from a global company perspective we’ve been set since last november against it and have only had to worry about a few one-offs here an there…which is a “no big deal” when your talking numbers of 50-100k machines you have to worry about in a single company.

Home user wise…i sorted out all my family and friends long ago…the rest of the machines i’m guessing are all non-patched pirated winboze boxes…. /shrug

]]> By: oldr4ver http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/04/conficker-day-april-1st-uneventful/#comment-138912 oldr4ver Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:54:24 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/?p=1669#comment-138912 The article you quoted has some info backwards... "including the Conficker Cabal—formally known as the Conficker Working Group" They were the Cabal first and then renamed to CWG. The article you quoted has some info backwards…

“including the Conficker Cabal—formally known as the Conficker Working Group”

They were the Cabal first and then renamed to CWG.

]]> By: navin http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/04/conficker-day-april-1st-uneventful/#comment-138881 navin Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:08:22 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/?p=1669#comment-138881 WIRED has come up with a nice N00b article on how a buffer overflow works....chk it out at http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/conficker-how-a.html WIRED has come up with a nice N00b article on how a buffer overflow works….chk it out at http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/conficker-how-a.html

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