We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Conficker is a work of malware that, in the form of multiple variants, has been worming its way through unpatched Windows ...

Conficker is the internet worm that just won't die. Nearly seven years after it was let loose on the internet, it remains one of the most encountered pieces of malware online, even if its main ...

It all depends what you mean by successful, of course, but my choice would be Conficker (aka downadup), a sophisticated 2008 Windows worm that threatened mayhem before disappearing not long after ...

The Conficker worm has been a hot topic for months as white hats and black hats have struggled to one-up each other. When security teams broke the randomization cypher Conficker uses and were able ...

People who brought computers to their knees -- or changed the world. April 2, 2009 — -- April 1 is the day the Conficker computer worm was supposed to do something terrible to millions of ...

It infected 10 million computers. So why did cybergeddon never arrive? Credit...Cathryn Virginia Supported by By Mark Bowden Mr. Bowden is the author of “Worm,” about the Conficker virus.

If you’ve been paying attention to general computer news, you may have read about the Conficker worm, and what may (or may not) happen to Windows PCs that are infected with Conficker on April 1.

Despite some predictions of an Internet meltdown and digital apocalypse, the Conficker computer worm failed to wreak havoc on Wednesday, with at least one security expert labeling it “a dud.” ...

Mark Bowden of The Atlantic has a pretty amazing article on the Conficker worm and how powerless we all are against it. From the lede: When the Conficker computer “worm” was unleashed on the ...

With all the noise about Conficker turning your computer into liquid hot magma on April 1st, there’s actually some positive news. Researchers from the HoneyNet Project have been following the ...

Security researchers are in the dark about what will happen next week when the newest variant of Conficker, 2009’s biggest worm by a mile, begins trying to contact its controllers.