Last week the FBI announced that in July 4 million users worldwide could lose their internet connection. According to the Huffington Post everybody whose computer is infected with a certain virus is affected. The reason is a hacker ring that has been taken out by the FBI in November last year. Since the millions of infected computers were relying on the hackers’ rogue servers for their internet browsing, the police couldn’t pull the plug of the fraudulent network. Hence, the FBI replaced the rogue servers by governmental ones. However, this getting really expensive the government decided to shut their servers down at 9 July.
The FBI recommends to visit this website to find more information on the virus. Also there you will find a guide on how to figure out, if your computer is infected and what to do, if that proves to be the case.
Iran has been hit by a major cyber attack. The virus was directed at the Iranian oil ministry and its main oil export terminals and has struck its computer and internal communcations system. The Guardian quotes an Iranian IT expert who explains Iran’s fear of outside cyber attacks and hints at its efforts to create a secure nationwide intranet.
Iran’s plans of a so called “clean intranet” have been known since the beginning of April (however, denied shortly after by the Iranian Ministry for Information and Communication Technology, after a storm of outrage by the international community).
MIT students have managed to hack a huge on-campus building in order to turn it into a giant tetris game – an over 20 years old idea of MIT hacking tradition. With a controller people were even able to move, rotate and drop the blocks. The video you can check out here.
Recommendation: Mashable provides a good overview about cyber attacks – basic facts, the most common attack types and tipps for prevention.
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