Eye on Microsoft: Conficker Moves on to More Victims
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-10-07 23:58:54 UTC
- Modified: 2009-10-07 23:58:54 UTC
Summary: Latest news on Microsoft and security
RailCorp wrestles with Conficker
RailCorp has confirmed that some of its workstations had been infected with the Conficker virus, although it insisted that the virus had caused no operational impact.
Hotmail phish exposes most common passwords [
for context]
Neil O'Neil, a digital forensics investigator at secure payments firm The Logic Group, found that "123456" cropped up on the list 64 times. There were 18 uses of the second most popular password, "123456789", in the list.
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