'No country is safe from 'Flame' super-virus attack' - Kaspersky Labs

[Andrew]

A POWERFUL new virus has been uncovered which has been sabotaging government systems for at least five years in the Middle East.

The "Flame" program is claimed to be at least 20 times more powerful than any previously known cyberwarfare programs.


That includes the infamous Stuxnet which attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010, causing centrifuges in its new uranium enrichment facility at Bushehr to fail just weeks before it was due to start up.


Stuxnet and its successor, Duqu, have been fingered as viruses so powerful they could only have been created by a state.


Flame was discovered by security company Kaspersky, which claims it has been mining Middle East government systems since at least 2010.


Speaking in Sydney last week, Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky said cyber weapons can cause as much real damage as conventional attacks and there is nothing technology can do to save us.

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[John McHenry]

If it's sooo powerful in the last five years why has it attacked and succeed against any other countries?


Besides that what is your point in posting this have you not been told multiple times that if you post something your actually supposed to put your input on it? Instead of a cheap attempt to raise your post count.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Am I supposed to be worried?