Summary: Stories of interest from yesterday

● Conficker: Millions Hit, 300,000 Domains Blocked

Shipley told InternetNews.com that the Conficker.C worm has infected about 10 million Windows-based computers in 150 countries, with China's level of infection estimated at 3 million, Brazil at 1 million and Russia at 800,000. In the United States, researchers suspect about 200,000 computers have been infected.

● UltraDNS back online after DDoS assault

A distributed denial of service attack knocked NeuStar's UltraDNS managed DNS service offline for several hours on Tuesday.

NeuStar runs high-availability DNS services for customers such as online retailers and IT giants, including Oracle and Juniper. In a statement, NeuStar told Networkworld that the attack affected only a small (unspecified) subset of its customers.

● Three-fold global increase in infected websites

There was a three-fold increase in the number of malicious websites around the world infected with malware in March, with almost 3,000 potentially harmful sites intercepted every day of the month.

April 1^st posts of interest:

● Ubuntu to rewrite Linux kernel using Mono

Mark Shuttleworth, the Benevolent Dictator for Life of the popular Ubuntu Linux distro, has announced his plans to rewrite all of Gnome, X11 and the Linux kernel using the Mono platform.

● YaST and Compiz during Installation

We (Thomas Göttlicher, J. Daniel Schmidt and Arvin Schnell) have use all our remaining ITO for this really cool feature.