Virus rocks Iran's Nuke reactors

A new worm targeted Iran’s nuclear program, closing down the “automation network” at the Natanz and Fordo facilities, the Internet security site reported, citing an e-mail it said was sent by a scientist inside Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.

The virus also prompted several of the computers on site to play the song “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC at full volume in the middle of the night, according to the e-mail, part of which is published in English on the website.
F-Secure Security Labs, which is linked to F-Secure Oyj (FSC1V), the Finnish maker of security and cloud software, said that while it was unable to verify the details of the attack described, it had confirmed that the scientist who reported them was sending and receiving the e-mails from within Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.
Iran’s nuclear program and oil facilities have been subject to a succession of cyber attacks that the Foreign Ministry said in May were launched by hostile governments as part of a broader “soft war.” Iran accuses the U.S. and Israel of trying to sabotage its technological progress. Both countries say Iran’s nuclear activities may have military intent, an allegation that Iran denies.

E-Mail Exchange

Mikko Hypponen, chief security officer at F-Secure Security Labs and the person involved in the correspondence, said he received three e-mails on July 22 from an individual with an aeoi.org.ir e-mail address, receiving replies after he responded. After researching the person’s name on the internet, Hypponen said he found “plenty of nuclear science papers and articles published by someone with this name.”
“I can’t confirm that the person was who he said he was. And I can’t confirm any of the things he said actually happened,” Hypponen wrote in reply to e-mailed questions. “But I can confirm I was emailing with someone who had access to an aeoi.org.ir address.”
Iran has called on the United Nations to condemn organized cyber attacks against nations, the head of Iran’s Information Technology Organization, Ali Hakim Javadi, said today, according to a report by the state-run news channel Press TV. Significant investment is needed for the creation of malware viruses such as Stuxnet or Flame, which previously targeted Iran, indicating that they were not produced by individuals, the Iranian official said.

High Voltage

AC/DC have played “high voltage rock ’n’ roll” since they were formed in 1973 in Australia, according to the band’s website. Their songs were among the loud music played to detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility in preparation for interrogations, the Associated Press reported in October 2009, citing the National Security Archive in Washington.
An attack where the infected PCs start playing AC/DC isn’t that likely “unless the attacker really wants the victim to know they are hit,” Hypponen said.
F-Secure Security Labs is involved in analyzing viruses, spyware and spam attacks, according to its website.
Source : Here

To contact the reporter on this story: Ladane Nasseri in Dubai at lnasseri@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net.

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How to Keep Track of How Other People Are Using Your Media Online

Whether you have a blog, you post photos on photo sharing sites, or you're a YouTube star you probably wonder when and how your media is getting used by other people. Regardless of whether it's free-to-use media or copyrighted material the process of tracking it down is the same.

Depending on the type of media you're producing you can track it in different ways. For our purposes we'll break the search into three types: art and photos, writing, and videos.

Track Where Your Photos and Art Appear Online

Tracking where photos and art appear online is pretty easy if you don't mind doing it manually. The webapp TinEye provides a dead simple reverse image search that will track anywhere your image turns up online. All you need to do is upload your image and TinyEye will search to see if it appears anywhere else online. Google's own Search by Image will do the same thing.

Less helpful but still useful is your image host's built-in stats page. If you're using any of the big image hosting sites like Picasa (views), Photobucket (Home > Stats), or Flickr (Your Stats), you'll find a statistics page showing when people link to your images. Provided someone is linking and crediting your image you'll see where it's coming from.

Track Down Writing Quotes, Links, and Everything Else

Tracking down your written words is a bit tricky. The simple and automated method is to create a Google Alert with your name, but that's only going to show up when someone is linking to your writing with your name included. The other easy method is to setup trackbacks on your blog so you can tell when people link to you. If your blog doesn't support trackbacks (or you're not using a blog format) you can use Google's Webmaster Tools for free. Once Webmaster Tools is set up, click Traffic > Links to see who is linking to you.

Of course, not every usage of your writing media is going to link back to you. To find out where you words might also be appearing you can use a copy search engine like Copyscape. In Copyscape you paste the URL you want to check and Copyscape will pull up any links that are identical. You can also sign up for the automated service Copysentry that does the same thing for $4.95 a month.

Find Where Your Videos Are Getting Embedded

Tracking where your videos you create turn up online is remarkably easy and built right into the two major video sharing platforms, YouTube and Vimeo. You can check where traffic comes from and where the video is embedded.

For YouTube, click your account name in the top right corner, then select Video Manager. Next, click the Analytic button. Here, you'll find the traffic of all your videos and a breakdown of where that traffic comes from. To find out where the video is embedded, select the video you want to track and then click the Analytics button. Select Playback locations, then click on the "Embedded player on other websites" link. Here you'll find every site that has embedded your video.

For Vimeo you need a paid Plus membership to see where you videos are embedded. Click Me > My Stats > Advanced stats > Embed. Here you'll see where your videos have been embedded.

So whether you're just curious as to how your freely available media gets used or if you're trying to hunt down someone breaking copyright the above tips should get you on your way. We weren't able to find a good way to track down how music is used save for a Google Alert or a store's built-in statistics tool (the online store Bandcamp, for instance, gives you a breakdown of incoming links)

From : LifeHacker

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Lulz Security Takes FBI Partner In Atlanta

You must have heard of Lulz Security by now. Lulz Security is the team of hackers responsible for some of the PSN hacks, the X-Factor hack, PBS, several hacks of Sony Entertainment and now they’ve turned to an FBI partner company based in Atlanta.
InfraGard Atlanta is described by Yahoo London as  a “public-private partnership devoted to sharing information about threats to the U.S. physical and Internet infrastructure”. Wait a second did they say that InfrafGard shares information about threats against the US Internet infrastructure? And they got hacked by Lulz Security?
That’s right, according to sources Lulz Security obtained email addresses, passwords and some identifying information about over 180 members of the InfraGard organization. They were also able to use the information gained from the InfraGard hack to steal nearly 1000 work and personal emails from the Chief Executive at Delaware based Unveillance LLC.
It’s a little disconcerting to find that an organization like Lulz Security is able to hack the FBI partner used to help prevent this kind of thing from happening.  What makes it even worse is that Lulz Security has indicated that all of their hacks to this point have been relatively easy.
Nintendo was able to thwart an attack from Lulz security.  According to Nintendo Lulz Security hacked into their site but walked away empty handed.  Sony on the other hand hasn’t had that much luck these days in terms of security.  Their PSN network has been hacked several times with millions of customer data, including credit card numbers, stolen.  Sony BMG, Sony Music and Sony Pictures all had internal email addresses and passwords stolen along with coupon codes from a hack of their Belgium and Netherlands websites.
Source: Yahoo

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