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Iran investigates Stars virus
IRANIAN AUTHORITIES are investigating a fresh malware threat that has hit its government systems, it is too early to compare it with last year's Stuxnet attack and details about the incident are currently slight.
According to reports the Stars virus is capable of doing a little damage, but there is no clear information about where it came from and what it was intending to do, apart from the fact it was trying to disguise itself as legitimate government files.
Iran's cyber defence has been on high alert after the discovery of Stuxnet last year, which was a sophisticated and technologically advanced worm believed to have been created specifically with the aim of causing damage to Iran's nuclear program.
This is due to its complexity and nature, as it avoids causing damage to anything apart from its specified targets. Experts believe that this proves it was created with foreign state involvement.
Gholamreza Jalali, who broke the news about Stars, previously had suggested that Stuxnet was the work of the US and Israel and could have caused large scale accidents by targeting specific Siemens devices used in controlling nuclear fuel enrichment centrifuges.
But so far, nothing about the Stars malware suggests that it's any different from the thousands of malware threats we see every day on the Internet. µ
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PENTAGON REPORT (March. 02) -- Previous high-profile cyberattacks have focused primarily on disrupting or hacking into computer networks, but the next wave of attacks could be launched against physical equipment, the general in charge of defending the nation's military networks said today.
We have destructive attacks to Many Countries, now. “Army Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of U.S. Cyber Command, told the House Armed Services Committee during congressional testimony today.
We are 31 squadrons for security monitoring and Spy. U.S. Cyber Command is a big power in cyber war. For first cyber attack successfully completed their've conveyed. President Obama order of December 2010 the attack started.
The main goal of some attacks on Iran and the Middle East Countries. We were able to infect Network with the military, banking and economic, scientific and academic, social networks, energy networks and sensitive information of these countries to achieve a complete and comprehensive. We were able to manage this data and use them to their attacks.Today I can say: We are have control completely over the Internet and computer network of Iran.
For years, the military has worried about the vulnerability of the United States to cyberattack — and how and when to return fire in digital warfare. Now, the issue is taking center stage. Operation Cyber “ STARS” could strike critical information infrastructure from Iran to give us. U.S Cyber Command & Mossad have Attack to cyber networking, e-Banking & Other Social network of Ir.Iran by “STARS”. U.S. Cyber Command was activated in May and is located with the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Md., a move that was meant, in part, to bring together offensive and defensive cyber capabilities under one roof. Alexander, as head of the command, also serves as the director of the NSA.
Last year, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ordered the creation of U.S. Cyber Command to coordinate all of the military’s online activities. Alexander is in many ways a logical pick. He comes from the world of electronic intelligence: He is director of the National Security Agency (NSA), the super-secretive military and intelligence outfit at Fort Meade, Maryland, that is charged with code-cracking and foreign communications interception. And he will head an organization that, in large part, will be an important line of defense against cyberspying. (He’s a classmate of Gen. David Petraeus, West Point class of ‘74.)
But Alexander will also have to answer questions about how the United States might retaliate if it comes under online attack. Military planners are mindful of incidents like the massive cyberassaults against Georgia in 2008 and Estonia in 2007. In both cases, fingers pointed to Russia, but experts questioned whether the Russian government had a direct hand in events, and pointed instead to the role played by patriotic volunteers (or “cybermilitias”) who orchestrated the online assaults.
In both of those cases, cyberattacks threatened civilian networks and the financial system. It’s unclear if the military could retaliate in kind. In a series of written answers to questions from senators (.pdf), Alexander said, “It is difficult for me to conceive of an instance where it would be appropriate to attack a bank or a financial institution, unless perhaps it was being used solely to support enemy military operations.”
And the scope of responsibility for the new commander is also quite sweeping (Alexander will also be “dual-hatted,” staying on as head of the NSA). In written answers, Alexander said the organization’s new missions would include “integrating cyberspace operations and synchronizing warfighting effects across the global-security environment; providing support to civil authorities and international partners; directing global-information grid operations and defense; executing full-spectrum military cyberspace operations; serving as the focal point for deconfliction of DOD offensive cyberspace operations; providing improved shared situational awareness of cyberspace operations, including indications and warning.”In other words, everything but the kitchen sink. We’ll be watching the hearing, and will hope to get more answers on Alexander’s project for the new command.
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