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The Equation Group's attack on hard-drive firmware is one of the most advanced ever discovered, Kaspersky Lab said.

A cyberespionage group with a toolset similar to ones used by U.S. intelligence agencies has infiltrated key institutions in countries including Iran and Russia, utilizing a startlingly advanced form of malware that is impossible to remove once it's infected your PC.

Kaspersky Lab released a report Monday that said the tools were created by the “Equation” group, which it stopped short of linking to the U.S. National Security Agency

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The tools, exploits and malware used by the group—named after its penchant for encryption—have strong similarities with NSA techniques described in top-secret documents leaked in 2013.

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=REGIN

- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Warriorpride

- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Quantum

- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=cyberwar

- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=NSA

- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=TAO

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/visual-it-securitypart2-your-computer-as-a-possible-cyber-weapon/

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La NSA ne dévoile pas toujours les failles qu'elle découvre. Il aurait fallu être naïf pour croire le contraire, et de nombreux indices et révélations vont dans ce sens depuis des années. Cela dit, que la Maison blanche l'admette et se fende d'un billet de blog pour détailler les procédures menant à la divulgation ou à la rétention de failles, c'est nouveau.

It’s summer holiday season, when people pack up their smartphones and tablets, sunscreen and tank tops and set off for a change of pace. With connected devices it’s never been easier to find one’s way around, record memories, and stay in touch with friends back home.

But while technology makes traveling easier, a recent F-Secure survey pinpointed digital areas that need special consideration while on the road.

Eighty percent of C-level executives and IT security professionals believe that cyber-attacks pose a greater risk to their nation than physical attacks, while 51 percent believe a cyber-attacker is currently in their corporate network, or has been in the past year.

Über bislang nicht bekannte Hintertüren in iOS kann Apple sämtliche Daten einsehen und weitergeben, etwa an Strafverfolgungsbehörden. Sie umgehen dabei jede Sicherheitsmaßnahme auf dem Gerät

The Heartbleed bug is unusually worrisome because it could possibly be used by the NSA or other spy agencies to steal your usernames and passwords — for sensitive services like banking, ecommerce, and web-based email — as well as the private keys that vulnerable web sites use to encrypt your traffic to them.

Either way, there are now signatures available to detect exploits against Heartbleed, as Dutch security firm Fox-IT points out on its website, and depending on how much logging companies do with their intrusion-detection systems, it may be possible to review activity retroactively to uncover any attacks going back over the last two years.

The recent PRISM scandal has validated both the general public's growing unease with federal law enforcement agencies, and many of the fringe element's accusations about Big Brother's online behavior.

LAS VEGAS, Symantec Vision 2013 – April 16, 2013 

Symantec Corp.’s (Nasdaq: SYMC) Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 18 (ISTR) today revealed a 42 percent surge during 2012 in targeted attacks compared to the prior year.

Designed to steal intellectual property, these targeted cyberespionage attacks are increasingly hitting the manufacturing sector as well as small businesses, which are the target of 31 percent of these attacks.

Small businesses are attractive targets themselves and a way in to ultimately reach larger companies via “watering hole” techniques.

===> In addition, consumers remain vulnerable to ransomware and mobile threats, particularly on the Android platform. <===