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The US Department of Homeland Security released a tool on Monday to detect whether a computer is infected by the Conficker worm.

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Conficker's routine on the April 1st with its newest variant dubbed as "Conficker.C" is still a mystery to security researchers.

PCs infected with Conficker.c, the third version of the worm that first appeared late last year, will use a new communication scheme on April 1 to establish a link to the command-and-control servers operated by the hackers who seeded the malware. The date is hard-coded into the worm, which in turn polls any of a number of major Web sites, including Yahoo, for the date, said Stewart.

"So far, we haven't seen any evidence [on those machines] of what it will do April 1," added Stewart, although that's to be expected. "It's not April 1 yet, so they're not going to put something online, where it might be found. In fact, it's almost a little risky for us to try to look for those sites, since it might give away that we have some bots in their network."

However, on F-Scure's notes on their blog, nothing is likely to happen on the said date. Hopefully.

Gmail is already up after an outage occurred last Tuesday at approximately 0930 GMT leaving millions of people worldwide disrupted on their access for about two and a half hours.

Phishing Scam hits Twitter last week as users received direct messages from friends to open a blog which directed them to a bogus Twitter website, giving away their user name and password once they logged in. Website address may look like this:

http://twitter.access-logins.com/login

Note: Don't try to access above site


Though the hit is not as big compared to Myspace, still users are warned to be careful and be vigilant when encountering suspicious messages or websites.

Source: Twitter Blog