anyone notice how China never gets hit with these corporate and national level attacks.. rest of the world needs to grow some balls and take these chinese to task.. hard,firewall the whole country.

The US and European countries prefer to stick to more legal types of gathering information and ways that are much less traceable. Anything you put on a hard drive stays there unless you melt the hard drive in a furnace at 10,000 degrees (F). You could always use one of those eraser programs, but you can obviously tell something was wiped then, showing an intrusion was made.

Oh yeah, time to make the big $$$ off frantic end users scared shitless about the Duqu virus.

More like MS loses money from having a critical exploit that allows code execution in their damn word processing program.

And I was so close to having my nuclear power plant go online...

it must be nice to see the world in such a blissfully simple way. If anything, America needs to get off its *** and try to catch up with China in terms of IT expertise.

I was thinking the same thing :/

CIA written all over it

How is this a virus?


Have definitions changed since I left my computer to grab a beverage…

Partially true, i.e. they prefer to remain 'less traceable' if not entirely 'un-traceable'. I don't buy that argument that no western country get involved in such practices, simply because they wouldn't want to get caught by surprise or something.

I agree, we should put a strong checks for known malware, hacking countries and allow only legitimate traffic. If a hacking is found, ban those IPs and penalize the countries for their failure.

This is quite simply a myth propagated (obviously quite successfully) by certain unscrupulous companies wishing to profit from unnecessary data shredding and "multiple pass" disk wiping shitware utilities.

If you do a simple zero fill of a hard disk, or use the manufacturer's free utility to perform a low level format, the data is gone for good. It doesn't really matter who you call, whether it's the FBI, CIA, MI6 or Ghostbusters, the data is not coming back, because you have changed every 1 to a 0. There is no subliminal or residual data layer, if there were, hard disk manufacturers would have exploited it decades ago to create multi layer discs with vastly larger capacities. Zero fill is enough.

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