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The NSA reportedly tried — but failed — to use a Stuxnet variant against North Korea

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Right around the time that the Stuxnet attack so famously sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program in 2009 and 2010, the U.S. National Security Agency reportedly was trying something similar against North Korea.

The NSA-led U.S. effort used a version of the Stuxnet virus designed to be activated by Korean-language computer settings, but it ultimately failed to sabotage North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, according to a Friday Reuters report, which attributed the information to people familiar with the campaign.

The NSA did not respond to a request for comment.

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Symantec reportedly in talks to split into storage and security units

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Taking a cue from Hewlett-Packard and eBay, Symantec is said to be in talks to carve out the company into two entities.

One of the entities will focus on storage while the other will address the security business, reported Bloomberg, citing people who asked not to be identified because the conversations are private.

An announcement of the split, which is supported by CEO Michael Brown, could be made in a few weeks, according to the report.

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Iranian cyber warfare commander reportedly shot dead by men on motorcycle – Fox News

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Iranian cyber warfare commander reportedly shot dead by men on motorcycle
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A commander of an Iranian cyber warfare unit has reportedly been shot dead by two men on a motorcycle outside the country's capital, with Iran's Revolutionary Guard calling the death a “horrific incident.” Mojtaba Ahmadi was last seen leaving his home …

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Yahoo Mail reportedly loses key customer following mass hack attack

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BT, the UK-based telecommunications company with more than 18 million customers, is dumping Yahoo Mail following a successful hacking campaign that hijacked e-mail accounts and used them to send spam, according to published reports.

BT’s plans come four months after Ars was among the first publications to report on the mass campaign. At the time, attackers were able to commandeer Yahoo Mail accounts because administrators had failed to apply an eight-month-old security patch in the WordPress content management system that powered one of its blogs. By including malicious JavaScript in innocuous-looking webpages, the attackers were able to exploit the vulnerability and seize control over Yahoo Mail accounts that happened to be open while the booby-trapped webpages were viewed.

In March, more than two months after Yahoo finally applied the WordPress fix, criminal spammers continued to hijack Yahoo Mail accounts, suggesting that other security holes remained. That same month, Vivek Sharma, the general manager of Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger products reportedly vacated his post for unknown reasons.

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