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News Summary: Cybersleuths see link between virus
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 11th

By The Associated Press
A LINK: Cybersecurity researchers say they have found a link between the infrastructure-wrecking cyberweapon known as Stuxnet and the recently discovered Flame virus.
WHAT THAT MEANS: That finding could offer a new clue about the latter's origins.
ABOUT FLAME: The debate over the potency of Flame continues. The oversize virus is a kind of surveillance Swiss army knife, capable of turning on a computer's microphones, taking screenshots of its monitor, and - in one of its more novel attacks - sucking data from unsecured, Bluetooth-enabled cellphones left nearby.
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