A year ago nobody could have cared less about certificate authorities (CAs), a dull but critical part of Internet that makes it possible for web servers to authenticate themselves to other computers, including ordinary browsers, using SSL. But every year has its ‘threat nobody saw coming’ and in 2011 it…
Kaspersky Lab detects Duqu incidents in Iran and Sudan
Security vendor Kaspersky Lab has identified infections with the new Duqu malware in Sudan and, more importantly, Iran, the main target of the Trojan’s predecessor – Stuxnet. Duqu took the security industry by storm last week when the Hungarian research laboratory Crysys shared its analysis of the new threat with…