The Stuxnet virus that last year damaged Iran's nuclear program was likely one of at least five cyber weapons developed on a single platform whose roots trace back to 2007, according to new research ...

The U.S. currently faces a growing threat from cyber-attacks against its critical infrastructure (CI) vital to our modern society. Many understand this growing threat but don’t know the origins of a ...

A powerful new computer virus that some are calling the "Son of Stuxnet" has been discovered, and researchers are concerned about its potential for attacking critical infrastructure computers around ...

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Something has gone terribly wrong on the plant floor at ACME Specialty Chemical International Inc. Liquid is overflowing from vats, the power keeps shutting off, and CEO Jeff Hahn has no idea what’s ...

A report from the Netherlands claims that a Dutch man played a key role in the notorious Stuxnet worm attack against an Iranian nuclear facility, which then accidentally escaped into the wider world.

A highly sophisticated computer worm that has spread through Iran, Indonesia and India was built to destroy operations at one target: possibly Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor. That’s the emerging ...

*Too bad any number of interested parties have got this thing figured out by now. Hope you don't have any mission-critical SCADA systems running under Windows. Researchers determined that Stuxnet was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. This article is more than 5 years old. Iran is claiming a fire and ...

David Harley, the company's senior research fellow, says that, as the year progresses, we can expect to see more cross-platform threats using operating system-independent vectors like Java. "Windows ...

Clarke has seen the future of war and says it will be fought by hackers. Khue Bui The story Richard Clarke spins has all the suspense of a postmodern geopolitical thriller. The tale involves a ghostly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I hear the Time Warner-backed premium broadcaster is working up the project as a limited drama with Stephen Schiff (The Americans) ...