The latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) has complied new data taken from over 600 million systems worldwide, and has found that iterations of the Conficker worm have appeared on roughly 220 million computers over the past 2.5 years. This … View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News…
Worm attacks Iranian oil ministry
Organisations including the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum and the National Iranian Oil Company were the target of a computer worm attack on Sunday, according to the Mehr news agency. Read this Ten computer viruses that changed the world Read more “The cyberattack disrupted internet access at the aforementioned organisations and…
Worm attacks Iranian oil ministry
Organisations including the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum and the National Iranian Oil Company were the target of a computer worm attack on Sunday, according to the Mehr news agency. Read this Ten computer viruses that changed the world Read more “The cyberattack disrupted internet access at the aforementioned organisations and…
Getting Guinea Worm Gone: Report from the AHCJ Conference
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Iran oil terminal network hit by mystery “worm”
Iran appears to have has suffered a cyberattack that has disrupted and possibly damaged state websites and caused the facilities at the country’s key Kharg Island oil facility to be disconnected from the Internet, news agencies are reporting. The Iranian Mehr news agency briefly said that the Iranian Oil Ministry,…
Stuxnet worm planted on Iranian PCs via USB stick, site claims
The Stuxnet malware was not only designed to disrupt Iran’s nuclear programme it was part of a wider campaign directed from Israel that included the assassination of the country’s nuclear scientists, it has been claimed. The source for the latest explanation of Stuxnet’s mysterious provenance is online title ISS Source,…
Stuxnet worm reportedly planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick
The Stuxnet computer worm used to sabotage Iran's nuclear program was planted by a double agent working for Israel. The agent used a booby-trapped memory stick to infect machines deep inside the Natanz nuclear facility, according to a report published on Wednesday. Once the memory stick was infected, Stuxnet was…
Critical Windows bug could make worm meat of millions of high-value machines
Microsoft has plugged a critical hole in all supported versions of Windows that allows attackers to hit high-value computers with self-replicating attacks that install malicious code with no user interaction required. The vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol is of particular concern to system administrators in government and corporate settings…
CBS 60 Minutes: Stuxnet worm opens new era of warfare
Stuxnet showed, for the first time, that a cyber attack could cause significant physical damage to a facility. Does this mean that future malware, modeled on Stuxnet, could target other critical… View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security »…
Worm Attacks Coming For Google’s Android – Kaspersky Lab
Worm attacks on the Android operating system likely to be discovered in 2012, says Kaspersky Lab mobile malware unit in Moscow. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms