The NY Times is reporting that unknown computer hackers who call themselves "Cutting Sword of Justice" have claimed responsibility for spreading a malicious virus into Saudi Aramco, the Saudi government-owned oil company that's also the world's largest, and destroying three-quarters of all its computers. The hackers used a similar virus as the government created virus, Flame. Read More >>
After being dominated by weaponised trojan horses on two different occasions, nuclear loudmouth Iran says it's had enough: it's unplugging from the Internet, hiding, and making its own. Read More >>
Featured comment by Phenomenological:
"So...what stops an american agent with a memory stick going into Iran, plugging it into a computer networked to their new internet, and spreading it t..." More »
It's a scenario security researchers have long worried about, a man-in-the-middle attack that allows someone to impersonate Microsoft Update to deliver malware - disguised as legitimate Microsoft code - to unsuspecting users. Read More >>
A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation. Read More >>
Featured comment by rustybullet:
"That bit where the bluetooth is turned on - and downloads contacts etc. from devices around it (such as phones) - reminds me of eagle eye
Sounds li..." More »
The Duqu Trojan is one nasty piece of code, rivaled in sophistication only by its relative, the Stuxnet Worm. A new analysis of the Trojan, however, has revealed just how advanced it really is. Read More >>
Featured comment by joe.yearsley:
"Remember when Obama met with lots of tech giants for dinner, think this is a concoction of that? lots of experienced programmers with different coding..." More »
The Conficker worm was one of the more intriguing and potentially destructive pieces of malware in the past decade. Earlier reports have suggested that Stuxnet was created by the US and Israeli governments, and now Reuters has a source telling them Conficker was also used to negate Iran's nuclear program. Read More >>
Despite no official confirmation by the Pentagon, it's a very safe assumption that the US created the Stuxnet worm (with Israel's help) to take Iran's nuclear reactors offline. But when it was first discovered, it seemed too sophisticated for Earthlings. Read More >>
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