Collage: Voice of Russia The Internet as a global network may cease to exist in 2014, giving way to dozens of national webs with limited access to foreign web resources, Alexander Gostev, an expert at the Kaspersky Laboratory, told reporters…. Read More ›
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Rogue US-Israeli cyberwar weapon ‘infected Russian nuclear plant’
Even the space station has been infected by malware, claims Kaspersky By John Leyden, 11th November 2013 Stuxnet – the famous worm widely credited with crippling the Iranian nuclear weapons programme for several years – also infected the internal network of… Read More ›
Your phone may not be spying on you now – BUT it soon will be
Smash it with a hammer now, it’s the only way to be sure By John Leyden Posted in Security, 24th April 2013 10:04 GMT Free whitepaper – Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement Infosec 2013 Tibetan political… Read More ›
‘Red October’ has been spying on WORLD LEADERS for 5 years – researchers
New flavour of cyberespionage malware uncovered by security bods By John Leyden Posted in Security, 14th January 2013 18:04 GMT Free whitepaper – Shutterfly and Cleversafe Partner Case Study Security watchers have discovered a malware-based cyber-espionage campaign targeting diplomats, governments and… Read More ›
Anti-virus products are rubbish, says Imperva
‘Spend not proportional to effectiveness’ By Richard Chirgwin Posted in Security, 1st January 2013 21:15 GMT Free whitepaper – Media and Entertainment Goes Digital A study released in December by US security outfit Imperva has tipped a bucket on the… Read More ›
Saudi Aramco: Foreign hackers tried to cork our gas output
Worm outbreak targeted oil giant’s sensitive machinery By John Leyden Posted in Security, 10th December 2012 14:56 GMT Free whitepaper – A private Cloud-based approach Hackers who used the Shamoon worm to attack oil giant Saudi Aramco were bent on… Read More ›
Who’s using ‘password’ as a password? TOO MANY OF YOU
Study of hacked websites reveals top 25 common passphrases By John Leyden Posted in Security, 3rd December 2012 12:37 GMT Free whitepaper – Gartner: Secure Web Gateway Malware Detection Techniques A study to find the top 25 leaked passwords of… Read More ›
Meet the Flame virus’s mean little sibling
Posted By John Reed Monday, October 15, 2012 – 10:33 AM So it looks like the Flame and Gauss viruses that infected thousands of computers in the Middle East with advanced spyware over the last few years were merely meant… Read More ›
Flame cyber virus linked to more malware: report
By Agence France-Presse Monday, September 17, 2012 16:29 EDT Topics: iran ♦ Kaspersky Lab WASHINGTON — The Flame virus believed to be part of a cyberwarfare effort against Iran was developed as early as 2006 and is linked to at… Read More ›
Mysterious Wiper malware possibly connected to Stuxnet and Duqu/ targeting infrastructure in the energy industry
By Lucian Constantin | IDG News Service August 30, 2012 Kaspersky security researchers present their findings about Wiper malware affecting servers at Iran’s oil ministry in April Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered information suggesting a possible link between… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 