TAG: Stuxnet virus

Stuxnet virus strengthened Iranian nuclear programme: Report

20 May, 2013, 5:01 pm IST Nishtha Kanal General

The Stuxnet virus from 2009, which was supposedly designed to damage the Iranian nuclear programme, seems to have strengthened it instead... More

Google's Eric Schmidt, co-author slam China in upcoming book

04 Feb, 2013, 12:04 pm IST Nikhil Subramaniam General

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has labelled China "the most dangerous superpower on Earth" in an upcoming book The New Digital Age, co-written by Jared More

Malicious program that can steal data unearthed

16 Oct, 2012, 3:31 pm IST Anuradha Shetty General

Kaspersky Lab has announced the discovery of miniFlame, a small and highly flexible malicious program, which has been designed to steal data, and control infected... More

Kaspersky Lab's analysis of Flame virus points to more malware

18 Sep, 2012, 11:04 am IST tech2 News Staff General

Kaspersky Lab revealed the results of a new research pertaining to the discovery of the widely reported... More

Iran says - "massive cyber attack" detected on nuclear facilities

22 Jun, 2012, 11:15 am IST General

Iran has detected a planned "massive cyber attack" against its nuclear facilities, state television said on Thursday, after talks with major powers ... More

Expert says - "Flame" can sabotage computers, attack Iran

22 Jun, 2012, 11:03 am IST General

The powerful Flame computer virus is not only capable of espionage but it can also sabotage computer systems and likely was used to attack ... More

U.S. and Israel created the Flame virus, says report

20 Jun, 2012, 11:44 am IST Naina Khedekar Software 1 Comments

The most sophisticated and powerful virus, Flame, was created jointly by Israel and the U.S. to slow ... More

Bitdefender brings tool to eradicate Flamer espionage virus

15 Jun, 2012, 2:22 pm IST Naina Khedekar Software 1 Comments

Bitdefender has released a tool that finds and removes the Flamer attack toolkit, known as the dangerous ... More

Flame malware controllers send uninstall command

08 Jun, 2012, 11:02 am IST Rossi Fernandes Windows

Kaspersky Lab had announced the discovery of the sophisticated malware, that was called Flame and the ... More

Microsoft boosts security as Flame virus exploits Windows bug

06 Jun, 2012, 6:02 pm IST Naina Khedekar Windows

Microsoft lately revealed how the Windows bug allows the Flame virus to infect a system in the disguise of a genuine ... More

Nations must talk to halt "cyber terrorism": Kaspersky

06 Jun, 2012, 5:31 pm IST Windows

Eugene Kaspersky, whose lab discovered the Flame virus that has attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East, said on Wednesday ... More

Kaspersky Lab experts provide in-depth analysis of Flame’s C&C infrastructure

06 Jun, 2012, 5:25 pm IST Shayne Rana Windows

On May 28, 2012 Kaspersky Lab announced the discovery of a highly sophisticated malicious program, known as Flame, which was actively being used as a cyber More

Flame virus exploits Windows bug, Microsoft issues software fix

05 Jun, 2012, 11:04 am IST Naina Khedekar Windows

Flame virus has waged a cyber war against countries in the Middle East. It follows the recent cyber attacks by Stuxnet and Duqu... More

Flame virus is a government funded project, reveals Kaspersky researcher

31 May, 2012, 5:25 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Windows

Over the past few days, we have been bombarded by the exploits of the newly discovered virus going by the name, ... More

UN issues Flame warning to member nations as Iran confirms attack

30 May, 2012, 12:55 pm IST Naina Khedekar Windows 1 Comments

Kaspersky had uncovered what it called the most advanced and sophisticated virus, a cause of cyber attacks in the Middle East..... More

Flame could be the most powerful virus ever

29 May, 2012, 1:59 pm IST Naina Khedekar Windows

With cyber crime spreading across the globe, Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs, reportedly uncovered a massive cyber attack, More

Powerful "Flame" cyber weapon found in Middle East

29 May, 2012, 9:04 am IST Windows

Security experts have discovered a new data-stealing virus dubbed Flame they say has lurked inside thousands of computers across the Middle East ... More

Experts say Iran has 'neutralized' Stuxnet virus

15 Feb, 2012, 1:21 pm IST Windows

Iranian engineers have succeeded in neutralizing and purging the computer virus known as Stuxnet from their country's nuclear machinery, European ... More

Researchers prove that Stuxnet weapon has at least 4 cousins

29 Dec, 2011, 11:39 am IST Windows

The Stuxnet virus that last year damaged Iran's nuclear program was likely one of at least five cyber weapons ... More