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Using Conficker's Tricks To Root Out Infections 117

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @09:25AM from the fighting-fire-with-thermometers dept.

iago-vL writes "Despite having their domain blacklisted by Conficker, the folks at Nmap have released version 4.85BETA8, which promises better detection of the Conficker worm. How? By talking to it on its own peer-to-peer network! By sending encrypted messages to a suspect host, the tools will get Conficker.C and higher to reveal itself. This curious case of using Conficker's own tricks to find it is similar to the last method that we discussed. More information from the author is available, as well as a download for the new release (or, if you're a Conficker refugee, try a mirror instead)."

Submission + - UK Home Office Site Links to Porn 1

Submitted by Azaril on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @08:44AM

Azaril writes: The British home office had an embarrassing incident this morning, when it was discovered that a link to the new legistlation on data retention actually linked to a Japanese porn site. Apparently, the home office forgot to renew the domain name, and didn't change the link when it was bought by a japanese company. This of course comes after the news that the home secretary claimed pornographic films on her expense account.

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