Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In 508
Nieriko writes "Reports are trickling in about the impact from the Conficker worm, as infected systems passed zero hour at midnight and began downloading additional malicious components. Here are a couple of the more notable incidents caused by Conficker so far, according to published reports: — '... shortly after midnight local time, an ATM in the capital city of Reykjavik began spewing 100-Krona notes. ... A nuclear missile installation near Elmendorf Air force Base outside of Anchorage, Alaska briefly went on a full-scale military alert after technicians manning the bunker suspected that several of their control systems were infected with Conficker.'"
The damndest thing with these stories today (Score:5, Insightful)
It's so hard to tell which ones are too stupid to be true and so stupid they probably are true.
Re:Yeah, April Fools... (Score:5, Insightful)
Genius (Score:5, Insightful)
Whoever set this virus up was smart to have things happen on April 1st. I never know if these reports are real or someone is making a joke.
Re:The damndest thing with these stories today (Score:3, Insightful)
It's so hard to tell which ones are too stupid to be true and so stupid they probably are true.
Sad reality is Conficker's authors were smart enough to rely on the stupidity of said news publishers.
Disinformation with zero effort, for nearly 48 hours, who wouldn't want to launch their malicious plan on this very day?
Not funny... (Score:2, Insightful)
The Best April Fools Joke (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Non-story (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:5, Insightful)
university-elitist brainwashing...
Most people call that "learning".
Re:Yeah, April Fools... (Score:3, Insightful)
There hasn't been a serious story on /. yet today. I always hope nothing important actually happens on April 1st, for fear it'll be ignored and get filed as "yet another gag"
Re:Non-story (Score:3, Insightful)
Moderators should just refuse to moderate April Fool's stories. The story's from an alternate reality; let them moderate their own insane events.
Re:Yeah, April Fools... (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, that's what you get for listening to Archvillains.
In other news, there's a flickr user calling herself Jay Peg. Maybe just 'jaypeg.' There's also a racehorse named Jay Peg. I'm gonna put down the Google and back away slowly with my hands in the air now.
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:1, Insightful)
What is amazing is that the real haters of Fox don't acknowledge the bias of the others. It's completely laughable.
No, the real hilarity is the presumption that 1) Fox News is honest about their bias (no they are not, they don't deny it but they actively avoid advertising the fact that they are strictly conservative viewpoints) and that 2) everyone else is strictly liberal (total bullshit, but knowing that fact requires remembering what media was like prior to Bush's 8 years...seems like most Fox News worshippers cannot remember it).
Re:Yeah, April Fools... (Score:3, Insightful)
I agree. It's a good one. Both because it's subtle AND it punishes the tendency to not RTFA. Bravo, /.
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:5, Insightful)
The degree of bias from Fox/CNN/MSNBC is subjectively scored based on how much you agree with whatever slop they're dishing out.
In other words, if you believe MSNBC has no bias, then you will also believe that Fox has an extreme bias. The reverse is also true.
Re:The damndest thing with these stories today (Score:2, Insightful)
Isn't it a bit in poor taste to mix the April Fools reporting with a legitimate topic that is supposed to be newsworthy today?
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:1, Insightful)
That is a very large assumption. Some people are more concerned about the accuracy of the reporting. Fox tends to make things up more frequently than others. Does that mean I think CNN or MSNBC are free and clear? No. 1 and 0 are not the only options.
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:5, Insightful)
Learning is the mental absorption and retention of information. Whether the information you learned is true or false is something else again, and I think that's the point he was making. Some universities may, in fact, be causing their students to learn false information. Brainwashing is a form of learning too.
Re:The damndest thing with these stories today (Score:3, Insightful)
How do you know it's not that part that is the April fool? That is, rather than publishing a fictitious article, make you believe that a legitimate article is untrue?
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:5, Insightful)
There are two parts to the Fox News Channel: the journalism part and the editorial part. The journalism part is actually pretty "fair and balanced," and that's the part most people refer to when they talk about media bias. Unfortunately, that part comes on while no one is watching.
The editorial part is unabashedly conservative, but even they do a better job than the other channels in at least having someone there to provide token opposition. Their bias is very evident because they provide the contrast right there. Other channels with less obvious bias usually will at best tell you the other side's position in their own words.
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:5, Insightful)
Why only two?
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:3, Insightful)
The other poster already commented on the journalist thing...but when your news station has a "non-journalist" covering Obama's major speeches, how do you expect rational, logical people to take you seriously? How is it fair and balanced? Really, please try to watch Fox News from a point of view of trying to find facts instead of trying to find viewpoints you agree with. They edit to change meaning, they blow out of proportion non-issues if they are against liberals, they change the little R next to congress members names to Ds when they have sexual relations with their male interns. And people just sit by and act if it is ok. It isn't. This isn't an entertainment show like Rush Limbaugh. It is billed as a news channel, and it fails at that on almost every level.
Re:I think its infected my car. (Score:3, Insightful)