Conficker, One Year On

Ironically Conficker was actually preventable because Microsoft had issued a patch weeks before the worm started to take hold. This just highlights how important it is for organisations to make sure their systems are maintained properly and fully patched to manufactures recommendations.

Ideally a central patch management solution can be used to make sure this is managed properly and you have true visibility on the posture of computer assets.

The main goal of the authors was to create a DDoS network while minimising damage to the infected machine. This means that if there is a next time the impact could be multi-pronged causing malicious and costly damage as the worm propagates through the system and perhaps targets sensitive data and utilises its own transport mechanism to release this to the public domain.”