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US Drone computers infected with virus

08

Oct

2011

Wired reports that the US Drone fleet has been hit by a virus. These unmnaned aircraft are full of electronic devices and remotely controlled for various missions in Afghanistan and other war zones. A computer virus was discovered and several efforts to get rid of it failed. One of its capabilities is to record keystrokes, […]

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Hurricane Irene Inspires Phishing Scams

27

Aug

2011

As Hurricane Irene barrels toward the eastern seaboard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning government agencies and private companies to be on the lookout for storm-related phishing attacks and other malicious cyberactivity. In an alert issued Thursday , the agency said that cybercriminals go into overdrive during highly publicized physical events such as […]

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Hack wireless industrial sensors in a few easy steps

10

Aug

2011

On the heels of the recent activity with Stuxnet, the industrial process control computer worm that targeted Iranian nuclear centrifuges, a Blackhat talk by Thanassis Giannetsos explains how to hack yet another commonly used family of controllers. We have mused that this trend, targeting critical infrastructure nodes, is but a shade of things yet to […]

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