AF Cyber Chief William Shelton: Cyber Attacks Provoking Iran
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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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 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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Iran turned to a Hungarian cyber lab and a Russian security firm for answers after the country discovered the Flame virus, the Washington Post reports. Kapersky Lab experts concluded that Flame was created by the same group or groups that developed the Stuxnet worm, which targeted industrial systems and equipment. A former U.S. intelligence official [...]
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Cyber researchers believe that a recent virus found in networks in the Middle East has similarities with a 2010 virus that attacked Iran’s nuclear weapons system, Reuters reports. According to reporters Jim Finkle and Joseph Mann, Kasperksy Lab and Symantec executives spoke at a Reuters event Monday about the Flame virus, which was originally discovered [...]
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A cyber expert recently said that the U.S. is vulnerable to cyber attacks despite its ability to create sophisticated computer viruses, Business Insider reports. Mike Lloyd, chief technology officer at Red Seal Networks, told writer Michael Kelley that the country can suffer from attacks that are simpler than the complex Stuxnet worm, which targeted industrial [...]
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Researchers Find Mysterious Virus In Iran, Middle East; Neil Fisher Comments
May 29, 2012 No CommentIran and additional countries in the Middle East have found traces of a Stuxnet-like computer virus that could have been deployed more than five years ago, Jim Finkle reports for Reuters. Flame’s mission has yet to be determined and experts suggest there is not evidence suggesting the virus can attack infrastructure, delete data or any [...]
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Experts told House lawmakers this week that they believe Iran is a bigger threat than China or Russia, having passed developmental stages for offensive capabilities and moved onto defensive efforts in cyberspace, GCN reports. Ilan Berman, vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, told attendees of a joint House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee meeting that [...]
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