Is Iran just seeing Stars?

2011-04-27 07:51

http://www.csoonline.com/article/680599/is-iran-just-seeing-stars- By Robert Lemos CSO April 26, 2011 An Iranian official caused a stir Monday, claiming the nation's cybersecurity experts found another digital attack aimed at the Islamic country's systems. Calling the attack "Stars," Gholam-Reza Jalali, the director of Iran's Passive Defense Organization, said that the attack was camouflaged as a government file and that initial damage was slight, according to a report from the Mehr News Agency. While Jalali made connections between the attack and the sabotage committed by Stuxnet, the code has not been analyzed by any security firm. "If they have a sample of something and they are not sharing it with anyone, then it is impossible for us to tell what it is, how serious it is and really if it is even targeted toward them," says Kevin Haley, director of Symantec's security response group. "So we are stuck with just guessing until we can look at a sample and figure out what it is doing and even if we have seen it before." In July 2010, antivirus firms discovered samples of the Stuxnet worm, a custom-built attack on Iran's nuclear program, but only after a third-party security company had identified the attack as something different. Finding the program referred to by Jalali is nearly impossible without technical details, says Haley. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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