David Marcus
Director, Security Research
Dave Marcus currently serves as Director of Security Research for McAfee® Labs, focusing on bringing McAfee’s ...
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Our good friends at Shadowserver have recently added some excellent graphs and stats that highlight the continued infections and propagation by the Conficker worm.
Conficker, although it actually does very little, continues to be a major annoyance worldwide, so let’s use these excellent charts and graphs as a reason to revisit two important points:
Take these two steps and you will be protected against Conficker and a whole lot more. Threats are complex, and combating them really does take layers of defense along with appropriate security technologies. In this age of “blended” and “Web 2.0″ threats, it is wise to incorporate host IPS, network IPS, reputational technologies, and cloud technologies.
The bad guys are always looking for new ways to make their malware and attacks more successful. The good news is we are always working on new technologies to make them less successful.
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