Tag Archive for: Vicious

Flame’s vicious sibling miniFlame malware, a cyber-espionage ‘surgical attack tool’

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The cyber-espionage malware Flame has a vicious little sibling called miniFlame, according to a Kaspersky Lab report released today. This small, “high-precision, surgical attack tool” can operate as a standalone, without the Flame main modules, or as a component controlled by Flame or the espionage program Gauss. Read more
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In Small Towns, Gossip Moves to the Web, and Turns Vicious (A. G. Sulzberger/New York Times)

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A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
In Small Towns, Gossip Moves to the Web, and Turns Vicious  —  MOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo. — In the small towns nestled throughout the Ozarks, people like to say that everybody knows everybody’s business — and if they do not, they feel free to offer an educated guess.

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