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Re: Cyberwar: UK PLC attacked 1000 times per hour 12 Years Ago by johnedwards095 … two on Chinese cyber attacks. The US have admitted that cyberwar is the biggest threat at this time to there national… Cyberwar: UK PLC attacked 1000 times per hour 12 Years Ago by happygeek Earlier this year Jonathan Evans, the Director General of MI5 (the UK Security Service), warned that cyber attacks against UK plc were as much of a security challenge as terrorism as far as Britain was concerned. He claimed that UK businesses were being targeted at an 'astonishing' rate driven by "many thousands of people lying behind both … Re: Cyberwar: UK PLC attacked 1000 times per hour 12 Years Ago by Reverend Jim That's distressing but not surprising. One little clarification, for us non-Brits, I think plc means public limited company (a limited company whose shares may be sold to the public). On this side of the pond it usually means (at least to we computer geeks) programmable logic controller. Should the U.S. Bomb Countries Harboring Hackers? 14 Years Ago by slfisher … [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story261145.html"]cyberwar [/URL]vary, with some people saying it is imminent and… Flame on: complex LUA and C++ cyber weapon fired at Israel, Iran and Syria 12 Years Ago by happygeek … Duqu belonged to a single chain of attacks, which raised cyberwar-related concerns worldwide. The Flame malware looks to be another… Did Lizards, rather the US, just go cyber on Kim Jong-un? 10 Years Ago by happygeek … is unlikely to be enough to prompt an act of cyberwar. Which leaves us where? Well the Lizard Unit https://twitter… Re: Should the U.S. Bomb Countries Harboring Hackers? 14 Years Ago by roblimo What about all the U.S.-based hackers? Are we going to bomb Maryland, California, Washington, Oregon, and New Jersey? These are all well-known hacker hotbeds, plus New Jersey is home to that awful Jersey Shore TV show and those horrid Real Housewives. Even so, is bombing a country over the sins of a few of its citizens morally justified? Re: Should the U.S. Bomb Countries Harboring Hackers? 14 Years Ago by slfisher Yeah, that would be interesting, if Russia or China were to bomb *us* for what it perceived as hacking coming from the U.S. Re: Should the U.S. Bomb Countries Harboring Hackers? 14 Years Ago by setherith Military action is at the far end of the spectrum, I think identifying the culprit and disconnecting them as a warning is probably as far as anyone needs to go. It's certainly what happens here already in the UK. If you get caught pirating/hacking or using your connection in a less than saintly way your disconnected from your ISP. Re: Should the U.S. Bomb Countries Harboring Hackers? 14 Years Ago by Agilemind History is very clear state vs individuals always results in individuals winning because the state doesn't know how to play on their terms. If you want to stop hackers hack them back, set up infected hacker-tools sites etc... It the same as insurgency and terrorism you have to fight at their scale, otherwise you always end up creating more of them… Re: Flame on: complex LUA and C++ cyber weapon fired at Israel, Iran and Syria 12 Years Ago by happygeek An interesting development: "Hungarian researcher Boldizsar Bencsath, whose Laboratory of Cryptography and Systems Security first discovered the Duqu cyber weapon, said his analysis showed Flame may have been active for at least five years and perhaps eight years or more" according to a [report](http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/… Re: Flame on: complex LUA and C++ cyber weapon fired at Israel, Iran and Syria 12 Years Ago by happygeek Also interesting to consider that Flame is around 20Mb in size, and includes livraires for compression, database management and a LUA virtual machine amongst other things. It's a very complex, and very large, package of assorted modules - much larger than most (if not all) worms to have surfaced so far. Reserachers at Kaspersky think the attack … Re: Flame on: complex LUA and C++ cyber weapon fired at Israel, Iran and Syria 12 Years Ago by happygeek And more: "Conflicting conjecture and confusion over the ‘ownership’ of the detection is muddying the waters. According to the Iran National CERT they had detection (but not removal) for the malware ESET calls Win32/Flamer.A in early May, but Kaspersky claims it’s been in the wild since March 2010: however, it seems to be the same malware … Re: Flame on: complex LUA and C++ cyber weapon fired at Israel, Iran and Syria 12 Years Ago by happygeek The 'chief security expert' at Kaspersky Lab, Alexander Gostev, has expanded upon the functionality of Flame at a technical level now, and rather importantly, provided the information required in order to perform a detailed check to see if you are infected (unlikely unless you are a Middle Eastern government agency, but you never know). More [here…