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Flame Culprit Fingered

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Flame, also known as Flamer and Skywiper, is a highly sophisticated espionage focused malware, which targets and infects Microsoft Windows systems. Flame is known to spread over the network and by USB thumb drives, and this malware is centrally controlled by 'those' who created and released it onto the world, more on 'those' later. To say Flame is an extremely sophisticated piece of malware is not an understatement,  it can covertly can grab screenshots, log all keyboard entry (think usernames, passwords), record Skype voice calls and even monitor network traffic,  returning all this information is sent covertly to "those" who created it. Those controlling Flame infections can even send specialised control commands, which includes a "kill command", which makes the Flame malware stop running and delete itself, so covering up any evidence of it ever being present on the PC. Flame: Commendable Malware Flame is not the product of cyber criminals...

LinkedIn Password Breach: Change Your Password Now

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Yesterday we learnt a hacker posted 6.5 Million LinkedIn passwords onto a Russian forum. These passwords were weakly encrypted (that's an unsalted SHA-1 hash for the techies), which means the actual passwords can be recovered by the bad guys with very little technical ability. Advice to LinkedIn Members 1. Change your LinkedIn Password Right Now 6.5 Million accounts may only be a portion of the total LinkedIn membership, and you may not consider your account as being affected because you have yet to receive a warning message from LinkedIn.  However in my view it is highly likely the bad guys will have ALL the LinkedIn account details and passwords for all LinkedIn users. So assume your account login (Email) and password is known by the bad guys, given this it is essential to change your LinkedIn password as soon as possible. 2. If your LinkedIn password is the same password you use on any other websites, Change Those Passwords Most people use the same password on different ...