 Image from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | What makes the Flame virus a major potential concern for common citizens of the world is the fact that it has 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 the NYTimes the program also contains a "microbe" command that can activate any microphone within the device, record whatever is going on at the timeà ‚¬"presumably whether you're actually using the device or notà ‚¬"and transmit audio files back to the attacker. Flame contains modules fromthe earlier "stuxnet" virus that appeared in the Middle East in 2010. Wired: "Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the NSA. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store every email, phone call and text message in the world." |
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