Risk Assessment / Security & Hacktivism  Conficker worm spikes,
infects 1.1 million PCs in <24 hours  The Conficker worm is back
with a vengeance, infecting over one million …  It has been over
a month since we heard much about Conficker, but the worm has
reappeared with a vengeance over the past seven days. According
to Finnish security company F-Secure, more than one million PCs
have been infected with the worm (also known as Kido or
Downadup) in the past 24 hours, with a total of 3.52 million
machines infected worldwide. According to F-Secure, that 3.52
million is a conservative estimate.  The problem isn't so much
with the older version of Conficker (now known as Conficker.A)
but with a new flavor, dubbed Conficker.B. Ars spoke with Roger
Halbheer, Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft's EMEA (Europe,
Middle East, and Africa); he's been monitoring (and writing)
about the current spread of infections. The skyrocketing
infection rate is actually being caused by several factors;
Roger describes Conficker.B as