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Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of antivirus and security software vendor F-Secure has suggested the ability to suborn both Windows Update and Microsoft security certificates may mean the spies that wrote Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame may be working undercover at Microsoft.

U.S. officials finally acknowledged a years-long cyberwar campaign against Iran and other countries according to the NYT. The admission is no surprise, but hearing cyberwar is a real option (and a real risk) gives hackers an overt place on the global stage for the first time.

Symantec captured a new version of the module the Stuxnet descendant Duqu uses to penetrate new systems, but not the part that shows where it gets its orders. Kaspersky, meanwhile, cracked the mystery of Duqu's mysterious coding language and identified characteristics of the coding team that built it; nothing's sure, but the profile is consistent with government work.

Iran refuses to return the high-tech spy drone that crashed after what U.S. officials said was a malfunction. Though the downed drone was too smart for its mission in Afghanistan, the U.S sent an even smarter replacement, and crashed an older drone that had been chasing pirates.

The head of Iran's cybersecurity military unit said Iran had developed an antivirus tool that works against Duqu and the virus was under control. It was the first confirmation son-of-Stuxnet had appeared in Iran.

The newest version of intelligent, adaptable, multimodular malware Duqu is even smarter than the last version of Stuxnet 2.0, but is still apparently designed just for industrial espionage, which seems like wasting evil brilliance on building better moustraps.

Need to explain the risk of serious malware attacks for non-geeks without boring them? Try this explanation of Stuxnet from Australian TV news mag Hungry Beast.

The Obama administration is defining and asking for international support of its policy of supporting an open, secure Internet, despite its own tendency to clamp down.

The hactivist group Anonymous is threatening attacks against Iran in response to Bahrain's claims Iran attacked its ministries in support of Bahranian Shiite minority.

While angry Iranian officials shouting at the West seemed to reduce tension over attacks on their nuclear facilities, Americans started attacking their own utilities.

A single hacker claims credit for attacks far more effective than accomplishments of Iran's "Cyber Army;" does the west face an Iranian version of Anonymous?

The U.S. is ramping up its defenses against China, Iran and other countries waging cyberwar, but there may be big holes in their defense.