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DHS Releases its Conficker Tool...for the Public Sector
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-03-31 15:06:55 265
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What Homeland Security is calling the most comprehensive detection tool yet for the Conficker worm isn't something it wants to share with the public.
By Scott M. Fulton, III
In the wake of yesterday's discovery that the Conficker worm can give hints to its presence on a system in a Windows-based network by changing the network signature of that system, the US Dept. of Homeland Security released what the chief of its US-CERT division says is "the most comprehensive [tool] available for enterprises like federal and state government and private sector networks to determine the extent to which their systems are infected by this worm."
But its use, says a DHS statement published yesterday, is limited to computers -- including network infrastructure systems -- operated by the federal government and its private sector partners. For that reason, DHS says, it's distributing this detection tool only through its secured channels. Specifically, government sources may acquire the tool through the Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (GFIRST) portal; and private sector partners may contact their designated Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC).
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