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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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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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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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