New York Times: Stuxnet A Joint US-Israeli Operation

Details of the Stuxnet worm’s origins and functioning have been seeping into the media, tidbit by intriguing tidbit, since last Summer, when news of the worm went mainstream. But a new exclusive from the New York Times breaks the Stuxnet story wide open, confirming oft-cited theories that it was ...

Cyber criminals to be more aggressive in 2011 !

New Delhi: With the growing diversity of operating systems among companies, and the increasing use of mobile devices, cyber criminals will put a new spin on social engineering by 'malware campaign' under which they will bombard recipients with email that drop virus downloaders. According to an...

Experts Discuss Stuxnet's Long-Term Impact on Cybersecurity

Stuxnet has both fascinated and horrified the cybersecurity community throughout 2010. Its multiple zero-day exploits, stealth capabilities, and precise control over industrial machinery mark it as a prime example of advanced cyber threats. Stuxnet represents both a nightmare and a dream for...

Understanding the Dangers of Stuxnet in Industrial Control Systems

Stuxnet is a sophisticated virus specifically designed to attack supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA systems manufactured by Siemens, a German industrial giant. These systems are commonly used to manage water supplies, power plants, and other industrial facilities, making the worm...

VMware Tools Update OS Command Injection

VMware Tools update OS Command Injection ======================================== 1. Advisory Information Advisory ID: BONSAI-2010-0110 Date published: Thu Dec 9, 2010 Vendors contacted: VMware Release mode: Coordinated release 2. Vulnerability Information Class: Injection Remotely Exploitable: Y...

Stuxnet Virus Could Threaten U.S. Infrastructure, Warns DHS Official

The computer virus Stuxnet, which some experts believe was created specifically to target Iran's nuclear facilities, could also threaten U.S. infrastructure, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official. "That virus focused on specific software implementations, and those softwar...

Stuxnet Code Now Available to Hackers, Posing Major Threat to Infrastructure

According to a report from Sky News, the Stuxnet worm has already been traded on the black market. The report does not specify whether this refers to the source code or binary samples. British security specialists now fear that terrorists could use the worm to attack critical infrastructure. The...

Wikileaks, Dodging DDoS, Bounces Back to Amazon

The Web site of Wikileaks was moving quickly to stay out of the way of large scale denial of service attacks on Sunday and Monday, following the release of a trove of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables. The controversial site, which has spent months trying to find a home secure from government...

Remotely Access Devices Behind Firewalls, NAT or Mobile Gateways using YALER

Sometimes you got to access devices that are behind a firewall or protected networks. You could do that via VPNs etc. You can also use Yaler, that requires minmal setup! All it takes is a few lines of code make your embedded system or mobile device accessible behind a firewall, a NAT or a mobile...

EU, U.S., and NATO Approve New Plans to Combat Cybercrime

Over the past three days, the European Union, the U.S., and NATO have approved new plans to combat cybercrime. On Monday, the European Commission announced its proposals to develop three systems aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for citizens and businesses. First, the E.U. plans to establish a...

Image Of the Day: The Internet Hijack That Wasn't?

Reports surfaced last week about an incident dating back to April, 2010 that involved the suspicious rerouting of Internet traffic through infrastructure belonging to a telecommunications carrier in China. Originally reported within technical circles in April, the incident simmered within the sma...

New Bill Would Give DHS New Power Over Private Networks

The latest in what has become a long line of legislation introduced in the House and the Senate in 2010 that attempts to address the country’s computer security shortcomings is a new measure brought forward by Rep. Bennie Thompson that would, among other things, allow the to force certain private...

Google Launches Phishing Alert Service

In late September, Google announced Google Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Administrators -- a tool that enables Autonomous System AS owners to receive notifications for malicious content found on their networks. For example, ISPs that host thousands of sites but don't directly control what's...

HP Systems Insight Control Detection

HP Systems Insight Control implements infrastructure management and has the ability to deploy, migrate, monitor, control, and optimize IT infrastructure through a management console. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid50539; scriptversion"1.7";...

HP Systems Insight Dynamics Detection

HP Systems Insight Dynamics is a infrastructure life cycle management suite that allows you to adjust, provision, and modify many different aspects of infrastructure. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid50540; scriptversion"1.9"; scriptcvsdate"Date:...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: rhpki security and enhancement update

Updated rhpki-ca, rhpki-common, and rhpki-util packages that fix three security issues and add several enhancements are now available for Red Hat Certificate System 7.3. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring Syste...

Europe tests cyber defences against hackers

BRUSSELS AFP – European computer guards battled Thursday against a simulated attempt by hackers to bring down critical Internet services in the first pan-continental test of cyber defences. All 27 of the European Union's member nations as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland took part in the...

Search Engine Finds Vulnerable SCADA Systems

UPDATED: ICS-CERT, the emergency response team for industrial control systems, has warned companies that run SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software that the systems running it may be easily discovered using a free Web based search engine dubbed Shodan. The warning came in the for...

FBI Arrest Over 100, Uncovers Cyber Crime Ring

The FBI announced last week that it had busted a major international cyber crime network after arresting more than 90 suspected members of the ring in the US alone. The FBI said that the suspects worked as so-called mules for hackers, who were based in Eastern Europe and used malware to hack US...

Canada Aims to Strengthen Cyber Defense with $90 Million Security Plan

Canada released its Cybersecurity Strategy this month, emphasizing the immense challenge of protecting government and corporate computer systems. “There is no simple way to detect, identify, and recover from attackers who cannot be seen or heard, who leave no physical evidence behind them, and wh...