Conficker - The Resurrection Of Old School Worms

The success story of Conficker aka Downadup tells us several interesting things:
1. People do forget. Common-sense security such as regular system patches/updates is not as present as it should be.
2. Old behaviour patterns reappear. Microsoft who published that piece of software that is vulnerable to that kind of malware offered an update but apparently couldn't reach its users in an appropriate way that could avoid Conficker becoming epidemic. Now they decided to go the well-known but inelegant "wild west" way by offering a head money of 250.000 US Dollar.
3. Old school still rocks. Conficker is like a relict from former times and it's astonishing that it can spread with such ease and penetrate today's sheltered networks. Conficker is more than a stress-test for some system administrators.

And the moral of the story is ...
... think about it!

I personally think that in terms of malware and computer pathology new threats don't bury the old ones. The evolution continues and by focussing on new diseases the old ones must not be forgotten.

What do you think? Let us know!

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