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20
Oct
2011

The security industry is buzzing today after Symantec released a whitepaper on a threat known as Duqu. What’s interesting about Duqu is that it’s heavily based on the Stuxnet source code, a worm that targets industrial control systems (ICS). The Stuxnet source code has never been made available publicly; it’s only available to the original […]

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18
Oct
2011

Big news today. A new backdoor created by someone who had access to the source code of Stuxnet has been found. Stuxnet source code is not out there. Only the original authors have it. So, this new backdoor was created by the same party that created Stuxnet. For a refresher on Stuxnet – arguably the […]

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Last week we discussed the SK Communications data breach where a large number of user accounts in South Korea were exposed. The scope appears to be bigger than initially reported, as ESTsoft, a South Korean company that develops software (including antivirus, compression utility software, etc.), came forward with a public notice disclosing that one of […]

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