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Earlier today, reports of a number of cyberattacks against various South Korean targets hit the news. The attackers, going by the handle “Whois Team” left a number of messages during the defacements: The code used for defacement, posted by an anonymous user to the “pygments.org” forum (see http://pygments.org/demo/68313/) indicates several e-mails used by the attackers: […]

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Duqu and Stuxnet raised the stakes in the cyber battles being fought in the Middle East – but now we’ve found what might be the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed. The ‘Flame’ cyber espionage worm came to the attention of our experts at Kaspersky Lab after the UN’s International Telecommunication Union came to us […]

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The New York Times is reporting that the United States nearly chose to use “cyber weaponry” in the lead-up to the attacks on Libya earlier this year. Apparently the US military considered hacking into the Libyan government’s air defense control systems. It is an interesting development that US officials are considering their offensive cyber capabilities […]

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