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The 2010 Stuxnet virus attack on a uranium processing plant in Iran has provoked the country into building up its cyber capabilities, the U.S. Air Force‘s head of cyber operations said Thursday. Reuters reports Gen. William Shelton, who also leads Air Force Space Command, told reporters Iran will become a force in the cyber realm [...]
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U.S. defense and intelligence officials have vaguely fingered Iran as the source of recent cyberattacks against U.S. banks and the oil industry in the Middle East, Mike Mount reports for CNN. Publicly, officials have only said the attacks were traced from a state actor and not specifically traced Iran’s direct participation to the attacks, Mount [...]
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Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered a new malware they have dubbed “miniFlame” that is believed to be reserved for high-profile victims, Wired reports. Kaspersky said that miniFlame is a spy malware found on computers that were previously infected by the Flame and Gauss spyware in Lebanon, Iran, and other countries. Researchers believe that the Flame [...]
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A top official from Iran has said that a cyber war is “more dangerous than a physical war,” Reuters reports. Due to this philosophy, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deputy commander of ground forces, Abdollah Araqi, said that Iran has the tools in case of a cyberwar. Reuters also reported that Tehran is working on developing a [...]
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Moscow-based antivirus company Kaspersky Lab found that the developers of the Flame malware have also developed at least four viruses in total, NextGov reports. Although the purpose of the others are still unknown, Kasperksy said one of the other malwares directs infected computers “out to a sinkhole.” Kaspersky Lab also found “further clues of the [...]
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A large supplier of liquified natural gas based in Qatar was recently infected by a virus that paralyzed the firm’s internal email services, Doha News reports. A spokeswoman for RasGas told the website the virus did not affect cargo operations and gas production at its facility in Ras Laffan in Qatar’s northeastern coast. However, the [...]
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently responded to questions from top Senate lawmakers on cybersecurity standards for power grids, CNET reports. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, and Susan Collins (R-Maine), the panel’s senior Republican member, asked the agency to investigate industry standards for authentication and access to control systems. According to [...]
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Researchers at Kaspersky Labs have discovered a virus that steals bank account information from victims and has similar code to the Stuxnet and Flame viruses, CNNMoney reports. According to David Goldman’s report, the “Gauss” virus appears to not be stealing any money but is tracking other financial activity such as login information. Stuxnet and Flame [...]
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The U.K.’s Intelligence and Security Committee said in a recent report that national security agencies should engage in covert cyber attacks on enemy states, according to the Daily Telegraph. According to Tom Whitehead’s report, the ISC believes defensive cyber tactics are not enough and the military should exploit cyber warfare and go on the offensive. [...]
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The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is claiming that reports about the U.S. facilitating cyber attacks against Iran require some skepticism, AOL Defense reports. During remarks at Bloomberg Government event, Rep. Mike Rogers addressed a reported partnership between the U.S. and Israel to develop the Stuxnet and Flame viruses. Stuxnet targeted Iranian industrial systems, [...]
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