Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:53
Conficker’s Tell-Tale Heart UncoveredSecurity experts have made a breakthrough in their five-month battle against the Conficker worm, with the discovery that the malware leaves a fingerprint on infected machines which is easy to detect using a variety of off-the-shelf network scanners. The finding means that, for the first time, administrators around the world have easy-to-use tools to positively identify machines on their networks that are contaminated by the worm.
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Monday, 28 May 2012 22:37
Flame, the Cyber WeaponA highly sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Middle Eastern and North African countries. It appears to have been at least five years ago. Is this state-sponsored cyber espionage? Kaspersky Lab, a Russian cyber-security software maker, said it discovered the virus, dubbed Flame, after a U.N. telecommunications agency asked it to analyze data on malicious software across the Middle East in search of the data-wiping virus reported by Iran.
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