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January 22, 2009

default is your password?

The computer press are reporting on the Conficker Worm with mainstream press and even abc radio not too far behind. Woody Leohard in the Windows Secrets newsletter writes clearly about the exploits of this computer malware. Do have a quick read, it’s worthwhile. One part of this blended threat malware is the autorun.inf vector riding on the insertion of USB Flash and other devices. I groaned about this vector in a previous post, auto not run and at the forum (which has been updated with discussion).

This worm also door knocks. It tries a range of passwords that people might use when they are too lazy to think of a password, and guess what, amongst them, “default”, “password” and “8888”. (see the Analysis tab on this Microsoft info page). Guess, we’ll have to think up another dummy password, eh?

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Posted by Anandasim at January 22, 2009 05:55 PM

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