Tehran: Iran said on Sunday it had detected the Duqu computer virus that experts say is based on Stuxnet, the so-called "cyber-weapon" discovered last year and believed to be aimed at sabotaging the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites. The head of Iran's civil defense organisation told the official IRNA news agency that computers at all main sites at risk were being checked and that Iran had developed software to combat the...
08:14 AM, Nov 14, 2011
New York: Indian authorities are investigating a computer server in Mumbai for links to the Duqu malicious software that some security experts warned could be the next big cyber threat. Web Werks, a Mumbai-based Web-hosting company, said it had given an image of the suspicious virtual private server to officials from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), after security firm Symantec Corp found the server was communicating with computers...
09:03 AM, Nov 08, 2011
New York: Indian authorities seized computer equipment from a data center in Mumbai as part of an investigation into the Duqu malicious software that some security experts warned could be the next big cyber threat. Two workers at a web-hosting company called Web Werks told Reuters that officials from India's Department of Information Technology last week took several hard drives and other components from a server that security firm Symantec...
09:11 AM, Oct 29, 2011
Los Angeles: A stubborn computer virus has reportedly hit the US Nevada control station that remotely pilot US military drone aircraft on missions in Afghanistan and other war zones, Xinhua reported. The virus has infected the cockpits of American Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke. According to Wired magazine, the virus, first detected about two weeks ago by the military's Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at...
08:35 AM, Oct 09, 2011
Brussels: As Europeans cough and sniffle their way through another flu season, new data shows their computers are also quite likely to catch a bug. Despite widespread use of antivirus software, nearly one-third of Internet users in the European Union were infected by a computer virus last year, according to official figures. The highest rate of infection occurred in Bulgaria, where 58 per cent of those surveyed reported a computer...
12:25 PM, Feb 08, 2011
Washington: An e-mail virus has attacked servers across the world, including those at NASA and Google, and possibly the US internal security department office. The virus, called "here you have" or "VBMania", is a simple Trojan Horse that arrives in your inbox with the odd-but-suggestive subject line "here you have", the Fox News said Saturday. The body reads "This is The Document I told you about, you can find it...
06:12 PM, Sep 11, 2010
A British researcher has successfully infected himself with a computer virus. ...
10:18 AM, May 29, 2010
Experts says need to demystify security to make people like to learn more. ...
07:20 PM, Feb 19, 2010
Spam email messages are used to infect PC's with malicious software. ...
11:58 AM, Dec 02, 2009
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