Duqu - Next Major Cyber Weapon like Stuxnet

Duqu - Next Major Cyber Weapon like Stuxnet The Stuxnet cyberworm could soon be modified to attack vital industrial facilities in the US and abroad, cybersecurity experts warned Wednesday at a Senate hearing. Computer security companies agree that these virus is unprecedented and it means the daw...

Report: Obama Administration Considered Libyan Cyber-Offensive

The Obama Administration reportedly debated kicking off its latest war-effort in Libya with a cyber-offensive targeting the Qaddafi regime’s air-defense infrastructure, according to a report from the New York Times. The details of the Obama Administration’s plan remain classified, but the Times...

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran GRAND RAPIDS – Cyber Styletto is a new novella by a journalist, a writer, and a security expert who have pooled their talents to create an enthralling good read that is future forward and predictive. The facts are base...

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran GRAND RAPIDS – Cyber Styletto is a new novella by a journalist, a writer, and a security expert who have pooled their talents to create an enthralling good read that is future forward and predictive. The facts are base...

Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks (Born : 4th Oct 2006)

Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks Born : 4th Oct 2006 The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006. The website was unveiled, and published its first document, in December 2006. The site claims to have been "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and...

DHS Thinks Some SCADA Problems Are Too Big To Call "Bug"

The Stuxnet worm may be the most famous piece of malicious software ever written. When it was first detected, a little over a year ago, the worm sounded a warning to nations around the world that critical infrastructure systems were potential targets of attack for foreign governments and cyber...

Cyberwar between Israel and Turkish Hacker

Cyberwar between Israel and Turkish Hacker Turkish hacker "TurkGuvenligi" hijacked some 350 Israeli websites on Sunday evening, launching a Domain Name System DNS attack on at least seven high-profile websites including The Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, UPS and Vodafone as well. Visitors ...

Researcher Will Demo Crippling Siemens Attack Using Metasploit

For years, there’s been an argument that the sophistication of industrial control systems is enough to keep script kiddies – or low-skilled hackers – away. Well, so much for that. Researcher Ralph Langer says that he will use a presentation at an upcoming security conference in Washington D.C. to...

Don't Say I Never Told You: Researcher Warned Congress Of Stuxnet Variants 10 Months Ago

Stuxnet may have been super sophisticated cyber weapon deployed by state actors, but future generations of the malware will be available to run of the mill script kiddies, a noted expert on security and industrial control systems has warned in a letter to the U.S. Congress ten months ago. Ralph...

Stuxnet Part Deux? US Officials Warn of Stuxnet Variants

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security warned lawmakers this week that we may not have seen the last of Stuxnet, the infamous worm that wound its way through SCADA systems just over a year ago. In a statement published on Tuesday, Sean P. McGurk and Roberta Stempfley of the DHS’ Office ...

Anonymous ,LulzSec & Stuxnet nominated for Pwnie Awards 2011 for Epic 0wnage

Anonymous ,LulzSec & Stuxnet nominated for Pwnie Awards 2011 for Epic 0wnage The nominees for the Pwnie Awards 2011 are finally selected today. Anonymous are nominated for hacking HBGary , LulzSec for hacking everyone & Stuxnet also nominated in Epic 0wnage. More Details on Nominations Read Here...

Report: Iran Resorts to Rip And Replace To Kill Off Stuxnet

HED:Report: Iran resorting to rip and replace to kill off Stuxnet infections DEK: Reports that Iran had recovered from the infection of the Stuxnet worm may have been overblown, as a new report suggests the country is being forced to replace thousands of expensive centrifuges damanged by the worm...

Wired Unpacks Stuxnet Mystery

You might think that everything that needs to be written on Stuxnet already has. After all, Threatpost has spilled virtual column inches on the stealthy worm, which targeted Siemens Simatic S7 programmable logic controllers. That’s in addition to posts by the likes of Symantec, McAfee and the...

Stuxnet Source Code Released Online - Download Now

Stuxnet Source Code Released Online - Download Now Stuxnet is a Microsoft Windows computer worm discovered in July 2010 that targets industrial software and equipment. While it is not the first time that crackers have targeted industrial systems,it is the first discovered malware that spies on an...

Stuxnet Source Code Released Online - Download Now

Stuxnet Source Code Released Online - Download Now Stuxnet is a Microsoft Windows computer worm discovered in July 2010 that targets industrial software and equipment. While it is not the first time that crackers have targeted industrial systems,it is the first discovered malware that spies on an...

AutoRun Infections Plummet Following Upgrade

A mid-February AutoRun update has had a dramatic effect on malware infection rates on the XP and Vista platforms, reducing infection rates using the AutoRun feature by as much as 68% across Windows platforms, according to Microsoft. Infections via the AutoRun feature in systems running Windows XP...

Siemens Patches SCADA Holes, Downplays Threat

In the wake of a report about vulnerabilities in its products, Siemens issued a patch for its Simatic S7 industrial controllers on Monday. ICS CERT, the Cyber Emergency Response Team for Industrial Control Systems, issued an alert advising Siemens customers to apply the patch. Siemens said its...

Video Presentation on Stuxnet by Hungry Beast

Video Presentation on Stuxnet by Hungry Beast In June last year, a computer virus called Stuxnet was discovered lurking in the data banks of power plants, traffic control systems and factories around the world. Pandora's box has been opened; on the new battlefield the aggressors are anonymous, th...

Video Presentation on Stuxnet by Hungry Beast

Video Presentation on Stuxnet by Hungry Beast In June last year, a computer virus called Stuxnet was discovered lurking in the data banks of power plants, traffic control systems and factories around the world. Pandora's box has been opened; on the new battlefield the aggressors are anonymous, th...

Many Stuxnet Vulnerabilities Still Unpatched

The media storm over the Stuxnet worm may have passed, but many of the software holes that were used by the worm remain unpatched and leave Siemens customers open to a wide range of potentially damaging cyber attacks, according to industrial control system expert Ralph Langner. Writing on his...