Microsoft Says Two Basic Security Steps Might Have Stopped Conficker

coondoggie writes "If businesses and consumers stuck to security basics, they could have avoided all cases of Conficker worm infection detected on 1.7 million systems by Microsoft researchers in the last half of 2011. According to the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence report, all cases of Conficker infection stemmed from just two attack methods: weak or stolen passwords and exploiting software vulnerabilities for which updates existed."

Comments

Applying security patches is a good idea?

[Gothmolly]

So basically they're saying if you had better passwords and applied patches, you'd avoid security problems?

Nice to see MS on the cutting edge of security research.

Han Solo said it best

[swm]

It's not my fault!