Everybody knew Facebook was using our preferences to target advertising on an individualized basis back at us. That was the trade-off for it offering the public “free” use of Facebook. However, the use of our personal preferences to attempt to manipulate us into believing specific political ideas is too much of a Faustian bargain….
Win32/Hydraq.B is a Trojan horse virus with a back-door remote controller that allows the intruder to retrieve system and user information, shutdown or reboot the system, execute commands on a remote shell, download and execute an arbitrary file, then save it to %Temp%\mdm.exe, escalate user privilege, copy, move, or delete files, and many other things….
Image via Wikipedia Win32/Stuxnet is almost certainly the most sophisticated virus yet developed for targeted attacks. Stuxnet is parasite code that focuses on subverting SCADA systems, the automated monitoring and control systems of many modern manufacturing, production, power generation, transmission and distribution, fabrication, water treatment and distribution, wastewater collection and treatment, oil and gas refining and transmission, and communication systems. Many SCADA software…