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Why Japan’s search-and-destroy cyber weapon could be a very bad idea

Jan

2012

According to media reports, the Japanese Defense Ministry has awarded Fujitsu a contract to develop a computer virus. No, it’s supposedly not for attacking the computers of other countries. At least, not yet. But it is apparently intended to help Japan counter internet attacks which have recently stolen data on fighter jets and nuclear plants, […]

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Google+ runs out of disk space, spams users with notifications

Jul

2011

Some early adopters of Google+ have found themselves bombarded with multiple notification messages in their email, due to a bug in the social networking’s code after the site – astonishingly – ran out of disk space. Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice-President of Social for Google, posted an apology (appropriately enough) on his Google+ account to those […]

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Stealthy variant of Bootkit.Trup

Jul

2011

The new variant of Bootkit.Trup is making rounds, which is updated to protect the infected MBR. The encryption used in Bootkit.Trup.B is very similar to its old variant “Bootkit.Trup.A” which is simple rotate right (ROR) operation. It gets Drive geometry of the infected disk and then calculates position near end of the partition to store […]

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