The malware was injected via an infected USB stick.Learn more about the Stuxnet worm. APT28 - A Russian APT (also known as Fancy Bear) used to target government entities in Eastern Europe.Learn more about APT28.
The dropper is the first stage of the installation process. When the victim activates the dropper, the dropper in turn activates the loader. Loader: As the dropper executes, the loader springs into action, installing the rootkit onto the target system. Loaders often do this by triggering a ...
NTRootkit- one of the first malicious rootkits to target Windows OS. HackerDefender- This early Trojan changed/extended the operating system with very low-level function calls. Machiavelli- It was the first rootkit for Mac OS X, which was introduced in 2009. ...
There was no shortage of causes or candidates on this year’s list, with 211 individuals and 107 organizations nominated ahead of the Feb. 1 deadline. However, the Norwegian Nobel Committee maintains absolute secrecy about whom it favors for arguably the world’s most prestigious prize. CEREMONY...
What was the first computer virus? The origin of the first computer virus is hotly debated. For some, the first instance of a computer virus -- software that moves from host to host without the input from an active user -- was Creeper, which first appeared in the early 1...
(Iran/Stuxnet), or economic damage to an important American industry in a time of peace (Sony/North Korea). We need to construct international laws that would create rules of the road for these new forms of warfare. These would not, of course, constrain groups like the Islamic State (...
It’s been awhile, so I decided to re-read the Sherlock Holmes stories this year. A Study in Scarlet was the first novel (incredibly written in a mere three weeks) and holds up very well. The initial (iconic!) meeting of Watson and Holmes is one of my favorite introductions to a ch...
the work I was doing / am doing / am never not doing at the time was the work of treating human bodies like playing pieces on a table, and missiles like dice hurled for effect. It’s an abstracted world, to me, one of full tangible and horrific harm in the human condition. It is...
Most of it is vulnerable for the same reasons the firmware the Equation Group targeted is vulnerable: it was never designed to be secure. Most hardware makers don't cryptographically sign the firmware embedded in their systems nor include authentication features in their devices that can recognize ...
From a security perspective, the Windows Print Spooler, and printers in general, have been a juicy target for exploitation by attackers for many years. The 2010 Stuxnet worm used against Iranian nuclear facilities exploited avulnerabilityin the service to escalate privileges and propagate...