“Given the military targets, and that millions of compromised keys are in circulation, this is not over.”-Rick Moy, NSS Labs
Reuters reporting that several U.S. military contractors have been hacked. The cyber attack might have snagged codes for high tech weapons being used in Afghanistan and Iraq.
ECM corporation admits that several of its RSA security keys were copied by hackers several months ago. This played a role in allowing hackers to access dozens of contractor databases, possibly for weapons codes. So far officials are not saying what the hackers actually did.
“However, certain characteristics about the Stars worm have been identified, including that it is compatible with the (targeted) system and that the damage is very slight in the initial stage, and it is likely to be mistaken for executable files of the government.”-Gholam-Reza Jalali, Iran’s Passive Defense Organization
No other details were given. Iran’s nuclear plant was hit with a computer worm last year. Iranian officials are blaming the United States and Israel, along with Siemens, for that cyber attack. Siemens made the computer software for Iran’s nuclear plant, and Iranian officials say the cyber attack would have required knowledge of the computer software.
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