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The Obama administration has
warned American businesses about the Flame virus.
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Photo credit: Ami Shooman 
By ANDREW E. KRAMER and NICOLE PERLROTH
MOSCOW — 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, called the CeBIT
conference, last month in Sydney, Australia. 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...Continue reading...
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