Conficker ~ The Enemy Within

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Davezilla
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Conficker ~ The Enemy Within

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This article from the Atlantic is very interesting, & slightly disconcerting reading. :shock:

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dhouwn
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Re: Conficker ~ The Enemy Within

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Ugh, typically the article has some nonsense in it: incorrect explanation of what the port had to do with the exploit, mixing up hashing and encryption, wrong definition of peer-to-peer…
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Re: Conficker ~ The Enemy Within

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dhouwn wrote:Ugh, typically the article has some nonsense in it: incorrect explanation of what the port had to do with the exploit, mixing up hashing and encryption, wrong definition of peer-to-peer…
So, who do you think created it? The Russian Mob? North Korea? China? Gordon Brown? ;)
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