Flame virus attacks the internet

[Gemini]

From Dr. Mercola:

Big Brother is watching. No kidding. And the warning is coming from none other than Google, which says government spies may be spying on you. Some believe the Google announcement may be related to the recent discovery of the data-mining virus named "Flame." In a June 3 New York Times article, Andrew Kramer and Nicole Perlroth write:

"When Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of Europe's largest antivirus company, discovered the Flame virus that is afflicting computers in Iran and the Middle East, he recognized it as a technologically sophisticated virus that only a government could create.

He also recognized that the virus, which he compares to the Stuxnet virus built by programmers employed by the United States and Israel, adds weight to his warnings of the grave dangers posed by governments that manufacture and release viruses on the internet.

"Cyberweapons are the most dangerous innovation of this century," he told a gathering of technology company executives... While the United States and Israel are using the weapons to slow the nuclear bomb-making abilities of Iran, they could also be used to disrupt power grids and financial systems or even wreak havoc with military defenses."

Mr. Kaspersky claims he was called in to investigate the new virus on behalf of the International Telecommunication Union, an agency of the United Nations. The virus was allegedly erasing files on computers belonging to the Iranian oil ministry.

What makes the Flame virus a major potential concern for common citizens of the world is the fact that it's the first virus found with the ability to spread wirelessly by attaching itself to Bluetooth-enabled devices.

Once there, it can not only trace and steal information stored on those devices; according to Kramer and Perlroth the program also contains a "microbe" command that can activate any microphone within the device, record whatever is going on at the time—presumably whether you're actually using the device or not—and transmit audio files back to the attacker. This, clearly, has huge privacy implications were it to be deployed against civilian populations.

Full article here.


Here's Christine's post about an important topic from the article: Spy Central: Utah

[Maia Gabrial]

Seems to me that the system is trying to hide their corruption and stop all oppositions to their agendas by spying on everyone. These same people they're spying on are the ones who can bring an end to their agendas and even them. They know they're in the wrong. We know they're in the wrong. It's only a matter of time before we end them for good....

[Cjay]

Posted by Gemini (here)
From Dr. Mercola:

according to Kramer and Perlroth the program also contains a "microbe" command that can activate any microphone within the device, record whatever is going on at the time—presumably whether you're actually using the device or not—and transmit audio files back to the attacker. This, clearly, has huge privacy implications were it to be deployed against civilian populations.

Full article here.

Nothing new in that. It has been an issue ever since personal computers and mobile phones were invented.

Whatever your computer or phone can do when you press/click something, it can do any time, without any help from a human. It can even turn itself on to do whatever it is programmed to do, then turn itself off.

I wrote about this in the '80s

[Bongo]

its curious that this comes from kaspersky, I use kaspersky internet security which is really good at its job. Now I don't have the program updating itself automatically because it turns the program in to a resource hog taking up over 50% CPU resources, so I turned it of and update manually but what I have noticed happening lately is that when I walk in to my room while the computer is on the update notification comes on the screen the second I walk in. This has happened countless times now & I have even spotted it responding to a loud noise when my room is quiet like it thinks you are there to see the notification.

I have had kaspersky for about 5 years now and set the program to manual update for about 3 years. The program doing this is a relatively new occurrence happening for about 3 or 4 months, maybe a little longer.

If my suspicions are right the kaspersky program is doing more on your computer than it is supposed to be doing.

Does anyone else have kaspersky? can anyone else relate to this happening?