Roughly a third of malware sent to a virtualized environment for analysis is able to elude detection, a security expert says.Security vendors sell virtualized appliances to run and analyze thebehavior of suspicious applications
Published on: June 20th, 2012
Antone Gonsalves
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While USB drives have long been a security threat, the Flame spying malware brought the use of portable storage devices to a new level of weaponry.Flame, discovered last month in Iran's oil-ministry computers,
Published on: June 13th, 2012
Antone Gonsalves
@itbusinessca
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs have found evidence that the development teams behind the Flame and Stuxnet cyberespionage threats collaborated with each other.The Kasperskyresearchers determined that Flame, which is believed to
Published on: June 11th, 2012
Lucian Constantin
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Businesses should install a Microsoft security update to avoid being duped by exploited certificates that were used as part of the Flame malware attack against targeted Iranian computer networks.The update fixes a vulnerability
U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the Stuxnet cyberattacks on Iran in an effort to slow the country's development of a nuclear program, according to a report in The New York Times. The Times,
What exactly is Flame? What does it do?Flame is an attack toolkit, which is a lot more complex than Duqu. It is a backdoor, a Trojan, and it has worm-like features, allowing it
The new Flamer malware targeting computer networks in Iran may be part of a government backed cyber warfare campaign, a new report suggests.The malware has shown up on PCsrunning Windows XP, Windows 7
Published on: May 28th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
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