The 13 Scariest Computer Viruses
It 's that time of year again - when the ghosts, ghouls and goblins roam the streets as eating candy for breakfast is quite acceptable, and all who love to scare the crap out of your friends is recommended ... It is obvious that "I have Halloween on the brain (Editor's Note: braaaaaaiiins), we 've been screening for Dead Set in the photo lab all week, our staff costumes roam halls and all the 'S got a good sound sugar. But our favorite part of Halloween ISN 't sweets - it' S creepy, crawly, cooling parts. A computer virus is as frightening as the zombie outbreak. Below, we count 13 worst computer viruses.
One botnet, two botnet, hahahaha!
13: ILOVEYOU Worm
The ILOVEYOU Worm was just a simple Visual Basic Script that wreaked havoc on just about every file on your hard drive. As if that weren’t devious enough, the ILOVEYOU Worm really shows off its demented roots with its method of deliveries: disguising itself as a love letter. It proved to be an extremely effective way to infect systems, claiming over 50 million victims in little over a month. We geeks tend to be a somewhat lonely bunch, and it’s just unfair to entice us with promises of love.
12: Here You Have Worm
Even though the ILOVEYOU Worm was defeated ten years ago, its spirit lives on. Just a few months ago, the “Here you have†Worm tricked recipients into opening e-mail attachments claiming to be work-related documents. Fortunately, improved software security prevented this virus from being significantly successful, but its familiar delivery tactics remind us of the heartbreak of reformatting our beloved computers ten years ago.
11: FakeAlert Trojans
FakeAlert Trojans have become alarmingly common lately, showing up in a multitude of flavors, such as Internet Security 2010, Antivirus 2011, Desktop Security 2010, and Security Essentials 2010. They infect their victims by creating advertisements that look like very convincing virus alerts. Clicking the ad then installs the “antivirus†program, which is actually the virus. Corporate and family computers are the most common victims, simply because workers and children are too embarrassed to admit they stumbled upon a virus and attempt to repair it themselves. Why is this so scary? Well, who do you think has to fix all these computers? Us, the computer geeks
10: Alureon
The Alureon virus has come and gone over the years, but it is making another comeback by bundling itself with various FakeAlert Trojans. While its MO isn’t all that different from most Trojans, stealing passwords and credit card info, and causing Blue Screens of Death, it also does something very annoying. Alureon can hijack your search engine, turning simple Google quarries into links to even more viruses. Because it can redirect any link in your web browser, it makes downloading removal tools extremely difficult if you don’t have a spare computer.
9: Fake Virus of Doom
Geeks have been pulling silly computer pranks on each other for as long as there have been computers. Some of the pranks are simple, like taking a screenshot of someone’s desktop, setting it as the wallpaper, and then hiding all of his desktop icons. Others are a bit more complex, like the Fake Virus of Doom. Just placing a simple flash video into your buddy’s Startup folder is all it takes to scare the crap out of him.
8: Kenzero
Kenzero is a recent virus, first popping up just a couple months ago. It’s not particularly prevalent, nor is it particularly destructive. Because it is distributed through P2P networks, the majority of its targets are those partaking in illegal file sharing, sort of like a villainous hero, but its MO is a bit more disturbing. Kenzero monitors and records the victims browsing habits and threatens to post them to the public unless the victim purchases certain items or installs certain programs. It’s a bit frightening and unsettling to think that our private lives can be exposed by a virus.
7: BooNana
6: iKee
5: AndroidOS FakePlayer
With jailbroken iPhones being Rickrolled and open to certain forms of attack, it’s not surprising to hear that Google’s Android OS is susceptible to viruses as well. FakePlayer was the first virus to be discovered targeting Android OS. It spread in the form of a Trojan disguised as a media player, and once installed, it began sending SMS messages to charge-per-text phone numbers, raking in profits for the scammers and sending your phone through the roof. Not even our smartphones are safe anymore!
4: Mariposa Botnet
While it wasn’t the result of any single virus, the Mariposa Botnet was a very large network of over 13 million zombified PCs, and even though it was dismantled and its creators arrested earlier this year, one very scary fact still remains: the entire Mariposa Botnet was created by just a couple of amateur hackers using Kiddie Scripts. It used to be that only a handful of people in the world had the knowledge that it took to create such a complex network of bots, but now anyone with a basic understanding of computer programming and access to the write scripts can accomplish the same thing.
3: Storm Worm 2
2: Stuxnet
1: Skynet
Speaking of Skynet, that brings us to our number one scariest computer virus of all. As everything in our lives becomes integrated with everything else, all tied together with a tangle of wires in cyberspace, it’s just a matter of time before every aspect of our lives to become vulnerable to cyber attacks. Encryptions, firewalls and cyber security will increase of course, but how can you stop an evil, super intelligent computer system intent on destroying the world as we know it? We must send the Governator of California back in time!
Iran detains 'spies' over Stuxnet cyber attack
Intelligence chief blames western powers for computer worm targeting nuclear systems
Iran had detained several "spies" involved in attempts to sabotage the country's nuclear programme through cyberspace, the Iranian intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said.
The announcement yesterday follows the attack on industrial computer systems in Iran by the Stuxnet worm, designed to disrupt its nuclear facilities, including the Bushehr power plant.
Although officials attempted to play down the significance of the Stuxnet attack, which had infected more than 30,000 computers, Moslehi's comments, apparently meant to reassure Iranians, suggest the cyber attack had caused more alarm in the regime than has so far been acknowledged.
Suspicions have also been growing in recent days that the Stuxnet worm may have been designed as much to spy on the systems as to destroy them.
In his speech, carried on Iranian television condition and maintenance Mehr News, Moslehi said that Iran has opened a "destructive activities arrogant [Western powers] in cyberspace", adding that "the various ways of dealing with them have been developed and implemented ".
He added: "I assure all citizens that the intelligence apparatus currently has complete supervision of cyberspace and will not allow any leak or destruction of our country's nuclear activities."
Moslehi gave no details of when the arrests had taken place or whether those detained were Iranians or citizens of another country.
Promoting statistical literacy: a proposal
Why do our institutions â€" particularly banks â€" fail to grasp the most rudimentary basics of password security?
Here's a modest proposal: what if the government took it on board to promote a reasonable, sane grasp of risk, security, and probability? Or, if you're a "Big Society/Small Government" LibCon, how about a more modest mandate still: we could ask the state to leave off promoting statistical innumeracy and the inability to understand risk and reward.
Start with the lottery: in the US, its slogan is "Lotto: You've Got to Be In It to Win It". A more numerate slogan would be "Lotto: Your Chance of Finding the Winning Ticket in the Road is Approximately the Same as Your Chance of Buying it". The more we tell people that there is a meaning gap between the one-in-a-squillion chance of finding the winning ticket and the one-in-several-million chance of buying it, the more we encourage the statistical fallacy that events are inherently more likely if they're very splashy and interesting to consider.
Blocking bingo? T Wouldn ', what it means to lose all the money a wonderful lessons through a voluntary tax on innumeracy? Maybe, but if you get rid of the lottery could lead to a slight increase in sense of risk and safety, think about the society-wide saving money is not spent on the alarmist newspaper, the charlatan child protection schemes, MMR scare and how!
Once we get rid of the lottery, let 'S attack banks. It 's not bad enough that they collect huge bonuses from the state, destroying the economy, they also systematically disorder our ability to understand risk and security on the basis of all more farcical stream "respect" hoops and Bizarro World "Security" action!
For example, my own bank, the Co-op, recently updated its business banking site (the old one was "best viewed with Windows 2000!"), "modernising" it with a new two-factor authentication scheme in the form of a little numeric keypad gadget you carry around with you. When you want to see your balance, you key a Pin into the gadget, and it returns a 10-digit number, which you then have to key in the browser field, helpfully mask your keystrokes when you enter this huge one-time password.
Don't get me wrong: two-factor authentication makes perfect sense, and there's nothing wrong with using it to keep users' passwords out of the hands of keyloggers and other surveillance creeps. But a system that locks users out after three bad tries does not need to generate a 10-digit one-time password: the likelihood of guessing a modest four- or five-digit password in three tries is small enough that no appreciable benefit comes out of the other digits (but the hassle to the Co-op's many customers of these extra numbers, multiplied by every login attempt for years and years to come, is indeed appreciable).
As if to underscore the Co-op's security illiteracy, we have this business of masking the one-time Pin as you type it. The whole point of a one-time password is that it no it does not matter if it leaks, because it only works times . It 's why we call it "one-off contact." Asking customers to key in the meaningless 10-digit code perfectly, every time, without visual feedback, ISN' T security. It 's sadism.
It gets worse: the Pin you use with the gadget is your basic four-digit Pin, but numbers can't be sequential. This has the effect of reducing the keyspace by an enormous factor â€" a bizarrely contrarian move from a bank that "improves" its security by turning this constrained four-digit number into a whopping 10-digit one. Does the Co-op love or loathe large keyspaces? Both, it seems.
It's not just the Co-op, of course â€" this is endemic to the whole industry. For example, Citibank UK requires you to input your password by chasing a tiny, on-screen, all-caps password with your mouse-pointer, in the name of preventing a keylogger from capturing your password as you type it. This has the neat triple-play effect of slicing the keyspace in half (and more) by eliminating special characters and lower-case letters; incentivising customers to use shorter, less secure passwords because of the hassle of inputting them; and leaving it vulnerable to all screen-recorders, which just make movies, what keys you mouse.
It wasn't easy â€" the branch staff couldn't believe that I had won an exception to this weird policy â€" but in the end, they opened the account for me. Now, like a mouse that's found an experimental lever that only sometimes gives up a pellet, I find myself repeatedly pressing it, hoping to hit on the magical combination that will get my bank to behave as though security was something that a reasonable, sane person could understand, as opposed to a magic property that arises spontaneously in the presence of sufficient obfuscation and bureaucracy.
The irony, of course, is that all banks will tell you that they 'Re just put you through hell pointless security, because the FSA or any other body, put them to him. Regulators strenuously denies this, saying that they only have to specify the principles - "you will know your client" - not a particular practice.
Which brings me back to my modest proposal: let's empower our regulators to fine banks that create nonsensical, incoherent security practices involving idolatrous worship of easy-to-forge utility bills and headed paper, in the name of preserving our national capacity to think critically about security.
Even if it doesn't kill the power of the tabloids to sell with screaming headlines about paedos, terrorists and vaccinations, it would, at least, be incredibly satisfying to keep your money in an institution that appears to have the most rudimentary grasp of what security is and where it comes from.
Robot warfare: call for tighter controls
Conferences will raise concerns over unpiloted aircraft and ground machines that choose their own targets
The rapid proliferation of military drone planes and armed robots should be subject to international legal controls, conferences in London and Berlin will argue this month.
Public awareness of attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as Reapers and Predators, in Afghanistan and Pakistan has grown but less is known of the evolution of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs).
Two conferences â€" Drone Wars in London on 18 September and a three-day workshop organised by the International Committee for Robot Arms Control(ICRAC) in Berlin on 20-22 September - will hear calls for bans and stricter rules in the framework of international treaties on arms limitation.
British academics and policy experts, Red Cross representatives, peace activists, military advisers, human rights lawyers and those opposed to the arms trade are participating in the German meeting.
Prominent among them is Noel Sharkey, professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at Sheffield University and a judge on the BBC series Robot Wars, who is speaking at both gatherings.
The development of what is known as "autonomous targeting" â€" where unmanned planes and military ground vehicles are engineered to lock automatically on to what their onboard computers assume is the enemy â€" has heightened concern.
Research is under way at enabling UAVs and UGVs to work in collaborative swarms, ensuring each machine selects a different target. This has reinforced fears that UAV strikes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and in the Horn of Africa â€" or wherever future wars are fought â€" will increase death tolls.
RAF pilots already operate armed drones from Creech US air force base in the Nevada desert. Eight thousand miles away from the frontline they control the release of Hellfire missiles and Paveway bombs against Taliban targets.
Through a freedom of information request submitted to the Ministry of Defence, the Oxford-based Fellowship of Reconciliation â€" the group organising the Drone Wars conference â€" found that as of April this year RAF-controlled Reapers had opened fire on 84 occasions so far this year.
Defence equipment manufacturers insist that there is always "a man in the [control] loop" to authorise operations and that they are far less indiscriminate than the high level air force saturation bombing that occurred in the second world war. Since there is no onboard pilot at risk, so the argument goes, they do not always have to fire first.
Philip Alston, a UN human rights special rapporteur, warned last autumn that US use of drones to kill militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan may violate international law. He called on the US to explain the legal basis for killing individuals with its drones.
"More than 40 countries have robotic programmes now," said Sharkey. "Even Iran has launched a UAV bomber with a range of several hundred miles.
"These [robotic] systems are difficult to develop but easy to copy. In the states a large proportion of robot making is being moved to Michigan to compensate for the decline in the car industry.
"Increasingly [the manufacturers] are talking about the 'man on the loop', where one person can control a swarm of robots. Our biggest concern for the future is autonomous systems that [select] targets themselves."
Dr Steve Wright, a reader in applied global ethics also at Leeds Metropolitan University who will speak at an ICRAC workshop on the dangers of terrorists obtaining drones, said: "We need a new treaty to limit proliferation. All the arms fairs now are selling UAVs. It's naive to think they will remain in the hands of governments."
Google Engineer Fired For Spying On Teen Users; Serious Privacy Concerns Raised
What's still rather alarming, however, is that this was possible, and that, despite all of Google's claims of security and procedures to keep these things from happening, the news did not come out until Google was alerted to the actions by parents of some of the teens involved. Google is notoriously secretive on these issues, and its "statement" on this matter, frankly, is pretty weak:
"We dismissed David Barksdale for breaking Google's strict internal privacy policies. We carefully control the number of employees who have access to our systems, and we regularly upgrade our security controls--for example, we are significantly increasing the amount of time we spend auditing our logs to ensure those controls are effective. That said, a limited number of people will always need to access these systems if we are to operate them properly--which is why we take any breach so seriously."That doesn't explain anything about how Google makes sure these kinds of things won't happen again. I certainly can understand that there's always going to need to be some people who can access certain systems, but the question is what Google does to make sure that access is not just limited, but monitored to avoid serious abuses like this. At a time when Google is under such strict scrutiny for privacy issues, this news and Google's response are simply unacceptable.
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Kane & Lynch 2 review
PS3/Xbox 360/PC: £ 49,99; certificate 18 +; Square Enix
A former mercenary and a self-medicating psychopath respectively, Kane and Lynch return for a second slice of grisly, gun-heavy entertainment.
This time around, Lynch is living in Shanghai with his girlfriend and Kane has one final job to complete. This last payday should be straightforward but straightforward does not a shoot-em-up make and, within a level or two, it's all gone mammaries skyward. A local crime lord's daughter is dead at their hands. Lynch's girlfriend has been abducted. Hundreds of well-armed gangsters are on their tail, former allies have turned on them and the police are also shooting to kill. And thus the scene is set for assorted stand-offs and carefully timed gun play.
Given the ancestry and the typical evolutionary process of games, it won't come as a surprise that Kane & Lynch 2 ups the intensity and gore quotient considerably. It cleverly masks some of the excesses with handily positioned, pixellated censorship â€" which, to be fair, adds to the documentary sense of the game. Yes, the shaky cam stuff is a shortcut to immediacy but, as Paul Greengrass will tell you, it works and it's that verité grit, and the realism of the visuals, that give Kane & Lynch its not-so-unique selling point. Without those, and the not-bad-at-all multiplayer mode, this would be an alarmingly short disappointment.
Some extra value is provided by the returning Fragile Alliance multiplayer games. Here you and your mates can commit elaborate heists and either celebrate together for a job well done or attempt to screw one another over by stabbing them in the back and keeping all the swag. These games do give the Kane & Lynch 2 package additional appeal, but on balance it's still not quite enough to break down genre barriers and make this an essential gaming purchase.
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Too much interference...only a 14 day return window...the main unit doesn't have a power plug in(have to use batteries). Eats up batteries quickly. Does have good picture when it your are close to the camera unit.
We bought this because of the multi-camera function since we have twins. This is a total waste of money. We had originally ordered the Levana Babyview 20 video monitor but returned it because it doesn't have the ability to connect multiple cameras. Having tried that one out I can tell you that it is a MUCH better product! The sound is much clearer, there is no interference, set up is simple and it actually has a clear picture.
The cons of the SVAT were:
1) It is not the color of '\\', as it is done. I've never seen a bit of color on the screen.
2) There is a ton of interference even when our wireless router was turned off. Rolling lines on the screen accompanied by a clicking sound which is exceptionally obnoxious, especially at night. This happens each time it switches between cameras and each time anything comes near the handheld unit.
3) It does not have a sensor which switches it to night vision. You must switch a tiny little switch on the camera. Imagine trying to do this in the dark if you accidentally forgot to do it before puting baby down for the night.
4) The night vision doesn't work well at all. Compared to the Levana Babyview, it is horrible! The Levana could see all the way across the room and was still clear. This is hardly visible from 2 ft. away. One of the cameras (we ordered an extra one seperately) seemed better than the other.
5) The handheld unit is huge and awkward and made out of a cheap plastic which doesn't seem durable at all.
6) The cameras might be fine once they were mounted, but they are also made out of a cheap, lightweight plastic and won't stay put unless they're mounted in place.
7) The instructions are very confusing. When setting up the channels on the handheld unit, down is 'on' and up is 'off' so it took a while to even figure out how to get a picture out of both cameras.
8) In order to use the handheld unit without the ac adaptor, you have to remove the back cover and take out the batteries.
9) The battery life in the handheld unit was horrible! I think they lasted about 2 hours.
10) Before playing with the 3 channels, this totally blocked our wireless router.
The pros were:
1) Price.
2) Ability to add additional cameras.
All in all, I would definitely spend a little more money and get something that works.
I work in the intelligence field and I got this to monitor my children downstairs while I'm upstairs in my office. For the price and plug-&-view - this is a great product. I have CCTV security system for my residence - but this little gem can be taken anywhere. Plug in while at a hotel - park your car outside your window - and monitor it while you're in your room. It's versatile to say the least. Shop around for the best price. Glad I got it - it has come in handy alot!
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