Using a Facebook account, an expert on Internet Security has sent a message box on Facebook, "friend," Safer Morey, who was infected with a computer virus. Cab computer is infected with the moment he clicked on a link from Morey Safer her Facebook friends. On another computer next to the cabin, she was able to see everything that is typed, from the bank account information for credit card information on Amazon.com is running on another computer almost as much as she immediately enrolled. Many of the 60 minutes the audience got its first virtual look at how easy and fast on-line hackers can steal your identity and private information.
...Using a Facebook account, an expert on Internet Security has sent a message box on Facebook, "friend," Safer Morey, who was infected with a computer virus. Cab computer is infected with the moment he clicked on a link from Morey Safer her Facebook friends. On another computer next to the cabin, she was able to see everything that is typed, from the bank account information for credit card information on Amazon.com is running on another computer almost as much as she immediately enrolled. Many of the 60 minutes the audience got its first virtual look at how easy and fast on-line hackers can steal your identity and private information.
...Conficker Facts and figures:
Conficker Facts and figures:
...* Conficker was boarded about 9-15000000 computer.
...* Conficker is targeting companies and enterprise computers.
...* Conficker automatically turns off some security settings built into Microsoft Windows.
...* Conficker blocks of computer users are not going to know sites that offer anti-virus protection.
* Conficker So far the program has only spread and asked for his' host for further instructions.
* Conficker can be transferred to the thumb drive because it contains code to activate automatically when it senses that the thumb drive is plugged in
* indicates Conficker infected computers to contact the command center and there are specific instructions for a contact 1 April, which led to the nickname of April Fools Day virus.
"The great thing that makes this shocking is that the adaptation of the defense that the security community has set," said Dan Kaminksy, computer security consultant for Seattle-based IOActive, Inc.
"We have some bad guys out there who are very sophisticated," said Merrick Furst, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "There are a number of machines that could be capable of being controlled by people who are not owners of these machines ."
Furst added that he had heard estimates that 3 percent to 5 percent of computers in the Fortune 500 companies may have some form of so-called malware, such as Conficker program that allows the outside to control them or steal from them.
Microsoft is offering a reward
No one knows who built Conficker, nor is it clear why or for what it does Conficker is made. Conficker was created by a young Russian cyber gang or single basement terrorist? Is it designed to steal identities and huge amounts of money or wreak havoc technical or is it just a big April Fool's joke? Microsoft wants to know, and they have offered $ 250,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest Conficker the creators.
We'll all soon know what if any consequences suffered as a result of Conficker program, but we know that the majority of malware today is usually driven to the crime of identity theft, data theft, spam, spyware and phishing attacks.
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