Posted September 18, 2012, 5:30 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in IT Security, The Web
Kaspersky has published its findings on the massively distributed Flame malware it identified four months ago, revealing that evidence found on Command & Control (C&C) servers suggests the strain dates back as far as 2006. Researchers also learned that the…
Posted August 10, 2012, 1:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in IT Security, The Web
Kaspersky security analysts have identified another cyber-threat (PDF) targeting the Middle East as part of ongoing research into Flame. Named Gauss, it displays all the hallmarks of being part of the same family as Flame (Stuxnet, Duqu) and is compromising financial…
Posted June 20, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
The Washington Post reports that Flame, an extremely sophisticated virus which was first discovered in Iranian oil refineries, is the brainchild of U.S. and Israeli efforts to slow Iran's nuclear program. This information comes from several Western officials who purportedly…
Posted May 30, 2012, 10:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in IT Security
The Duqu and Stuxnet malware heralded in a new era in cyber warfare, and brought cyber-espionage to the forefront of security experts minds. In many ways this has also resulted in the general public becoming increasingly sensitive to the almost…
Posted November 2, 2011, 12:30 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Microsoft, IT Security
Microsoft is on the hot seat over a previously unknown bug in its Windows operating system that's being exploited to infect computers with the Duqu virus, piped by some experts to be the next big cyber threat. The Duqu virus was…
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