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While origin unclear, Gauss indicates malware tool boom. The computer security firm Kaspersky Lab announced this week that it had found a new cyber surveillance virus in the Middle East that is a descendent of the Stuxnet, Flame and Duqu malware. But they are not calling it "Son of Stuxnet. " Stuxnet is the computer worm widely believed to have been used by the U.S. and Israel to attack Iran's nuclear centrifuges. Dennis Fisher, writing on the Kaspersky blog Threatpost, said the new malware, discovered in June, had been named Gauss, after the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. "Gauss contains some of the same code as Flame," Fisher wrote. "But is markedly different in a number of respects, specifically in its ability to steal online banking credentials and has an encrypted payload that experts haven't yet been able to crack.

" By Friday, both Kaspersky and the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySys) at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics had published Gauss detection tools. "It can be for espionage. ‘Anonymous’ hacking group targets ASIO, Defence Signals Directorate. How social engineering tricked Wal-Mart into handing over sensitive information. FinFisher Spyware Designed For Police And Government Apparently Enters The Wild. Google Fined $22.5M For Hacking Safari To Track You. Infosecurity – NIST advises firms to have cybersecurity response plan in place. Insider Threat: 3 Faces of RiskWebinar. – BankInfoSecurity. Security and training official for Pa.’s justice computer system arrested in … – The Republic.

Security and training official for Pa.’s justice computer system arrested in …The RepublicHARRISBURG, Pa. See on www.therepublic.com. Strong passwords are no use against social-engineering iHack. WikiLeaks: Americans Being Monitored by Secret Surveillance System ‘TrapWire’ – TheBlaze.com. WikiLeaks: Americans Being Monitored by Secret Surveillance System ‘TrapWire’TheBlaze.comThe documents, comprised of emails hacked by Anonymous, identify the program as “TrapWire,” and this could be the biggest of all previous leaks if the… See on www.theblaze.com.

Advanced Persistent Threats Can Be Beaten. Olympics-related malware goes on a global phishing trip. Crave’s Eric Mack looks at some of the digital threats taking advantage of the Games and at how to protect yourself. Read this blog post by Eric Mack on Crave. See on news.cnet.com.