Cyber Attack on The Iranian Oil Ministry's Computer Network

Cyber Attack on The Iranian Oil Ministry's Computer Network The Iranian oil ministry's computer network came under attack from hackers and a computer virus, prompting the Islamic Republic to disconnect the country's main oil export terminal from the internet as a preventative measure, a...

Stuxnet was planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick

Stuxnet was 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...

Project Basecamp Adds Stuxnet-type Attack Module to Metasploit

UPDATE: Project Basecamp, a volunteer effort to expose security holes in industrial control system software, unveiled new modules on Thursday to exploit holes in common programmable logic controllers PLCs. The new exploits, which are being submitted to the Metasploit open platform, include one th...

Free Configuration Check Tool by eEye Digital Security

Free Configuration Check Tool by eEye Digital Security eEye Digital Security, the industry's leading innovator of threat management solutions, just released new research, "Working Toward Configuration Best Practices" . Findings verify that proper configuration and mitigations remain the most...

Face to Face with Duqu malware

Face to Face with Duqu malware Once again we discuss about Stuxnet, cyber weapons and of the malware that appears derivate from the dangerous virus. The international scientific community has defined a Stuxnet deadly weapon because been designed with a detailed analysis of final target environmen...

Newly Compiled Driver Shows Duqu Authors Still At Work

The still-unidentified group of attackers behind Stuxnet and Duqu have drawn quite a bit of attention to themselves in the last couple of years with their creations. Researchers, law enforcement and some particularly angry governments all would like to have a long talk with the crew. But that...

Mystery of Duqu Programming Language Solved

Mystery of Duqu Programming Language Solved An appeal for help from the programming community has allowed antivirus analysts to classify the unknown language used to develop key components of the Duqu Trojan. The sections responsible for downloading and executing additional modules in the Duqu...

Duqu Trojan developed in unknown programming language

Duqu Trojan developed in unknown programming language Researchers at Kaspersky have reached out for assistance after an investigation into the Duqu Trojan uncovered a section that is written in an unknown programming language. The Russian security company says this new information could help them...

60 Minutes Weighs Stuxnet's Legacy

The security community might understand what the Stuxnet worm did. Now the war is over what the worm means – Stuxnet’s legacy, if you will. The latest to weigh in on that question is Steve Croft, of the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. We knew this story was coming when a 60 Minutes news crew turned...

Former NSA Director Calls Stuxnet "Good Idea"

Former National Security Agency NSA Director Ret. General Michael Hayden called the sabotaging of Iran’s nuclear program with Stuxnet a “good idea” during an interview with ‘60 Minutes.’ Hayden served as NSA director from 1999 to 2005, and was also director of the CIA from 2006-2009. During the...

Video: Expert Proves Stuxnet's Link To Iran Nuclear Facilities

When Ralph Langner, an independent security researcher, presented his analysis of specialized code used by the Stuxnet worm to an audience of his peers at the S4 Conference in Miami last month, it was a chance to get down in the weeks with one of the world’s top experts on Stuxnet and threats to...

Iran will Develop their own security Software, No more foreign Solution

Iran will Develop their own security Software, No more foreign Solution According to latest report, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister announce that - Iran has prohibited import of foreign computer security software. Because International sanctions stopped Iran from obtaini...

UPDATE: Why Stuxnet-Like Attacks Aren't Going Away

Ralph Langner is the closest thing to a rock star that you get in the Dockers and pocket-protector world of industrial control systems. The German researcher made headlines in 2010 as among the first security experts to analyze parts of the Stuxnet worm’s code devoted to manipulating programmable...

Examining Natanz

Langner was among the first independent researchers who argued that Stuxnet was designed to attack a specific target, namely: the Iranian nuclear facility at Natanz. Within recent weeks, his theory has been given a boost after the office of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued publicity...

Bits of code

Ralph Langner was a highlight of the S4 Conference, taking attendees through his detailed analysis of Stuxnet source code used to manipulate the Siemens 400 series programmable logic controllers PLCs. This shows a snippet of the Stuxnet code on display during Langner’s talk...

Reading material

Stuxnet expert and industry gadfly Ralph Langner was in attendance at S4 this year, as he has been in past years. This year, however, Langner had a new book to promote: Robust Control System Networks – a kind of call to arms for the industrial control sector to respond to a ‘post Stuxnet’ world...

UPDATE – Stuxnet Expert: Analysis Shows Design Flaw, Not Vulnerability Sunk Siemens

MIAMI–The world’s foremost expert on the Stuxnet worm said an analysis of source code for a critical component of the malware prove that Iran’s nuclear program was the target, and that attackers were able to exploit weak design in Siemens software, rather than having to exploit a software...

HITB2011KUL - Is The Pen Still Mightier Than The Sword

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Is The Pen Still Mightier Than The Sword References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/385.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dsYYZl4sk Release Date: ============= 2012-01-17 Vulnerability Laboratory ID...

Wait ! It's not just Stuxnet or DuQu , Kaspersky reveals 5 more cousins

Wait ! It's not just Stuxnet or DuQu , Kaspersky reveals 5 more cousins Russian computer security outfit Kaspersky Lab said that the Stuxnet virus that damaged Iran's nuclear programme was likely to be one of at least five cyber weapons developed on a single platform. The viruses have never been...

The Appropriately Hyped Stories of 2011

It’s that most un-wonderful time of the year: the time when everyone writes fluffy articles full of lists, retrospectives and look-aheads. Even we did it. Many of these lists involve some variation on the theme of most overhyped or least organic or or most awesomest or lowest fat content. This...