Conflicted by Conflicker

As posted in the “Waiting for the Worms” article below the conflicker worm was MIA on April 1st along with all the Gloom N Doom forecasted by the IT security industry. There is an interesting article posted by SearchSecurity.com that talks about not only possible reasons for the fizzle of the worm but also the impact these “Crying Wolf” scenario’s can have on the security industry. Will we get to a point where these warning will be ignored? Is that maybe the intention of some of these skilled attackers? How about end users who could of patched this 6 months back but still may have not until something as hyped as this? .. Many good questions still to be answered.

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