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It’s a rare month that we don’t see the term Advanced Persistent Threat grace news headlines, wreaking havoc on nuclear power facilities, Iranian intelligence agencies and international banking systems.In recent months, the ter...

Over the last month, the Flame virus quite literally burst onto the scene with its technical complexity and sophistication that outpaced the most advanced pieces of malware to date. Weighing in at 20 MB, the piece of code, dubb...

Maybe it was something in the water, but the last week of May was indeed a week of extremes–from the biggest threat on record to the tiniest Trojan to an unusual and completely unexpected act of transparency from Apple. H...

It seems that lately, threats that were once were simply known as “malware” or “viruses” have been elevated to the status of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), a term that has strategically been used to strike fear in the hearts...

Since the Belarus vendor VirusBlokAda pulled the alarm last week on a new malware deemed “Stuxnet”, a whole lot of information has been released here and there on different portions of the threat. As a matter of fact, the Stuxn...