07-06-2012, 06:14 AM
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Flame Malware Hijacks Windows Update
Flame's use of spoofed Microsoft security certificates will likely be mimicked by sophisticated malware writers to craft widespread attacks, experts say. - http://www.informationweek.com/news/...rime/240001490 = Flame Malware Hijacks Windows Update - http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/06/0...windows-update related - - http://www.securityweek.com/flame-ma...date-mechanism - http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06...-flame-malware - http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/arch...-strategy.aspx - http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2138 |
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07-06-2012, 08:22 AM
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In this article, notice the signature: http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/arch...-strategy.aspx Mike Reavey Senior Director, MSRC Microsoft Trustworthy Computing What do you think Trustworthy Computing is? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html http://www.enterprisenetworkingplane...-Computing.htm OK, it's off topic, but I was following a train of thought. Perhaps I should start a new thread regarding this... Last edited by valmar; 07-06-2012 at 08:30 AM. |
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07-06-2012, 09:58 AM
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why would anybody need Windows Update after having setup and installed all the cyber-security measures?
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07-06-2012, 10:12 AM
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Why would people running a nuclear plant trust their operations to a windoze PC - the most bug ridden insecure platform going.
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07-06-2012, 10:52 AM
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Flame is a rather poor relation (if related at all, the authors might have taken some of the ideas from Stuxnet, but its not even close to the same level of class) aimed at data mining from standard users. |
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07-06-2012, 11:11 AM
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These two blogs go into incredible detail about Flame and its components:
http://blog.cuckoobox.org/ http://stratsec.blogspot.com/ |
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07-06-2012, 12:44 PM
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Ta. D.
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