Showing posts with label conficker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conficker. Show all posts

Monday, June 15, 2020

The Confickeracy is part of our online heritage

from here and here (image source)

Now I'll be the first to admit that Conficker sort of stands out amongst most other viral malware, but the fact is I can name other malware that outlasted the Confederacy too. Individual pieces of malware have had a longer and wider ranging impact than a group of racist failures from centuries ago.

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Maybe we should have gotten a working cat instead of a working group

found on I Can Has Cheezburger

For all the good the working group did, the worm is still prevalent in the wild 10 years later. Maybe the cat can do what the working group couldn't.