Iranian officials are reporting that government systems have come under attack from a new computer worm, which follows last year's Stuxnet incident.The announcement was made by Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, the leader of Iran's Passive Defense Organisation, a military unit responsible for defending ... |
26 April 2011
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The notorious Koobface social networking worm seems to have stopped spreading on Facebook, much to security researchers' surprise.According to experts from FireEye, which noticed the unusual change in behavior, the last time Koobface was seen spreading on the world's largest social network was on February 1... |
11 April 2011
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Microsoft has released an optional software update yesterday which restricts the AutoRun functionality on older Windows operating systems, therefore blocking a common malware propagation vector.AutoRun is the feature responsible for automatically parsing autorun.inf files found on removable media devices, such as USB... |
9 February 2011
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Malware researchers from Panda Security warn of a new worm, which locks all documents, presentations or emails found on infected computers with a password.Dubbed Clippo.A, the worm copies itself as PICTURE.EXE and SOUND.EXE to all folders on the system, as well as to removable drives or network shares where it has wr... |
6 September 2010
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One year after it took the world by storm, the infamous Conficker computer worm still manages to make high-profile victims. Computers belonging to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) got infected with the malware last week forcing the entire network to be cut off from the Police National Computer (PNC) system.Conficker, ... |
2 February 2010
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The British media reports that the UK Ministry of Defense has been battling a computer worm that spread on the NavyStar networks of numerous ships in the Royal Navy Fleet. The worm crashes computers used for record keeping, e-mail communication, and Internet access. The NavyStar networks installed on certain ships ar... |
16 January 2009
04:59 GMT |
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After the U.S. Strategic Command banned the use of removable media on the army's networks last week, new details about the incidents that might have triggered this drastic decision surfaced. The networks of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, have been crippled, while... |
1 December 2008
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