Greetings, Professor Falken. The Stuxnet worm, “the most sophisticated malware ever,” has been discovered infesting Iran’s nuclear installations. There’s growing speculation that these were indeed the ...
The pioneering Stuxnet computer virus, which was designed to attack a single Iranian uranium enrichment facility, went on to infect PCs around the world. Security experts have identified thousands of ...
While it has been disturbing to see Internet threats become driven by financial gain, Stuxnet signals the arrival of something more worrisome: a new class of threat designed to seize and control ...
Researchers from security firm Symantec have found and analyzed a version of the Stuxnet cybersabotage malware that predates previously discovered versions by at least two years and used a different ...
Research released today challenges some earlier analysis of the Stuxnet attacks of 2009 and 2010. The Stuxnet malware was considered a harbinger of a new era of state-sponsored attacks on control ...
Microsoft said Thursday it is working to fix a Windows software vulnerability that lets a Stuxnet-like Duqu virus sneak into computers by hiding in Word document files. November 3, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO, ...
Every few years, a malware program comes along that ups the ante in the world of IT security risks. Code Red infected a ton of IIS Web servers in 2001 and led to Microsoft’s increased focus on secure ...