You know how people are always talking about Ft. Knox being really secure? Well, here is the civilian equivalent! Iron Mountain Inc is a company specializing in data storage. The best known Iron Mountain storage facility is a high-security cave in a former limestone mine at Boyers, Pennsylvania near the city of Butler in the USA. …
Category Archive: Security
Apr
13
Conficker Worm Awakens, Downloads Rogue Anti-virus Software
Security experts nervously watching computers infested with the prolific Conficker computer worm say they have begun seeing infected hosts downloading additional software, including a new rogue anti-virus product. Since its debut late last year, the collection of hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of systems sick with Conficker has somewhat baffled security researchers, who …
Apr
10
Conficker wakes up, updates via P2P, drops payload
The Conficker worm is finally doing something–updating via peer-to-peer between infected computers and dropping a mystery payload on infected computers, Trend Micro said on Wednesday. Researchers were analyzing the code of the software that is being dropped onto infected computers but suspect that it is a keystroke logger or some other program designed to steal …