June 23, 2012
by Wayne Madsen
Beginning on the evening of June 18, millions of customers of three large British banks — Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), NatWest, and RBS-owned Ulster Bank in Northern Ireland — began discovering that they had been frozen out of their on-line accounts by what the banks termed an unspecified technical computer “glitch.” [Read more…]
Experts warn W32.Flamer may have been developed by a nation state as part of cyberwarfare activities
by Nick Hopkins
guardian.co.uk,
Iran's Kharg island terminal processes 90% of the country's crude oil exports Photograph: Kaveh Kazemi/Corbis
A cyber-attack that targeted Iran‘s oil ministry and main export terminal was caused by the most sophisticated computer worm yet developed, experts have warned. [Read more…]