Conficker Worm Sinks French Navy Network

[Saint_Michael 3]

Wow talk about a complete shocker, that alone shows you someone knew what they were doing when they program this worm/virus. Obviously if you read the story it would seem some people don't pay attention to computer security as much as they should. I wouldn't put blame on the entire French Navy but it could have been a lot worse if entire country's military network was completely infected. However, something in that article really caught my eye and that was the fact that a simple firewall has kept this worm from infecting more computers then it has right now.

As for the current count, over 10 million and counting and so far it seems quick patches are keeping this at bay but there seems to be no clear solution to stopping this worm and so it makes me believe Conficker could be even worse then the storm worm if it hits the 6 month mark. On top of that it seems this work has been able to penetrate the British military as well and so who knows when U.S. military will be next.

SOURCE

http://www.pcworld.com/article/159224/article.html

Edited February 10, 2009 by Saint_Michael (see edit history)

[Echo_of_thunder 1]

Why does the old game Battleship come to mind here? Who ever came up with this virus really knew what they was doing for it to get into a goverment network.