Computer Security - Assignment Example

Computer sciences and Information technology 18 august, COMPUTER SECURITY “Flame” virus is developed by the joint efforts of United States and the Israel. Its preparation took intelligence for cyber-sabotage which was actually focused at slowing the ability of Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran’s computer networks were secretly mapped and observed by the massive piece of malware, sending back a stable stream of intelligence to prepare for a campaign of a cyber-warfare. Flame is a bug which is one of the most powerful cyber.

Flame and Stuxnet are the viruses that have been found recently. Many people do not even know that flame, stuxnet, etc. are the computer viruses. Yet, the computers of unsuspecting email readers are still safe from them because these viruses are not like those standard spyware and viruses that affect them. In order to destabilize, harm and physically tear down the infrastructure of Iran’s uranium enrichment capacity, oil industries and other economic sectors, the viruses like flame were actually developed.

The act of understood Chinese break-in of Google mail servers or Russian and Eastern European identity theft is possibly be observed as the act of dishonest civilians within the state but this virus are not like them. Instead it is clear that these specialized viruses are designed professionally and specifically made and positioned at the will of a national body. These viruses are surely not good for future at world stage as it is an indication of the beginning of a new type of warfare for which not a single country is truly prepared.

(Hamilton, 2012)Works CitedReed, Hamilton. “Stuxnet, Flame and the future of cyber warfare.”