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His 2016 film, Zero Days, investigates the use of computer viruses in cyber warfare.
As a result, many people ran out-of-date, insecure software, leaving them unnecessarily vulnerable to cyber attacks and computer viruses.
Kaspersky Lab, a global firm based in Moscow, said in a report released Monday that in terms of complexity, the malware rivals the Flame virus, a cyber-spying tool that was created by the United States and Israel for use against Iran.
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They said that real-world cyber criminals might build viruses that would give them remote control of the devices.
For more than a decade he and his team of researchers worldwide have often played off of hunches to track government-sponsored censorship, viruses, cyber-espionage rings, corporate co-conspirators, attacks on individuals and NGOs.
What form such an attack might take depends on who you talk to: many experts have pointed to physical destruction that could be wrought by a cyber attack, such as a virus programmed to take down the power grid, sinking whole cities into blackness.
(Reuters) - Iran has been targeted by a second computer virus in a "cyber war" waged by its enemies, its commander of civil defense said on Monday.
Even infosec vocabulary--words like "cyber," "hacker," "spam," and "computer virus --seem like frozen relics of the late 1990s.
