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Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament
From: Amrit Williams <johndoe321 () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:19:24 -0700
when did it become a "superworm"? Common problem though - trying to manage and secure remote, intermittently connected computing devices that the organization may or may not own but access corporate resources - I blogged about it recently (w/funny Kevin Bacon pic) *http://tinyurl.com/d43mwk* BTW - not sure it was posted but this is a great site http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org - props to those involved for finally putting the good guys on the right side of the OODA loop =) Amrit On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Juha-Matti Laurio < juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:
"The House of Commons IT systems has reportedly been infected by the infamous Conficker superworm, which has previously infected millions of Windows PCs and affected the operation of hospitals, military and large corporate systems. Political blog Dizzy Thinks first reported that a memo (below) sent out to parliamentary IT network users on Tuesday night warned that Conficker had disrupted the operation of parliamentary systems." --clip-- From the memo mentioned: "We are unable to clean PCs and portable computers which are either not switched on or which are not authorised devices. We therefore ask that if you are running a PC or portable computer not authorised to be on the Network that you take it off immediately. * An additional characteristic of this virus is that for some types of files it can skip direct to the Network from a USB memory stick or other portable storage device (e.g. mp3 players) without hitting the virus checker software. We ask that for the time being you do not use memory sticks or any other portable storage devices on the Parliamentary Network." More at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/27/conficker_parliament_infection/ Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament Juha-Matti Laurio (Mar 30)
- Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament Amrit Williams (Mar 30)
- Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament Larry Seltzer (Mar 30)
- Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament Gadi Evron (Mar 31)
- Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament Zach Lanier (Mar 31)
- Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament O'Reirdan, Michael (Mar 31)
- Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament Gadi Evron (Mar 31)
- Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament Larry Seltzer (Mar 31)
- Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament David Harley (Mar 31)
- Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament Larry Seltzer (Mar 31)
- Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament David Harley (Mar 31)
- Re: Leaked memo says Conficker pwns UK Parliament David Harley (Mar 31)