Tag: CYBERTERRORISM

The powerful and dynamic Stuxnet worm has completely baffled security experts since its discovery in June. The mysteriously imperceptible and untraceable mega-malware has disseminated through various machines and facilities in Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Russia, but a recent attack on an Iranian nuclear facility has sparked a global firestorm of publicity and conjecture. Now, some analysts ...

Officials in Iran have confirmed that the Stuxnet super worm has infected personal computers at one of the country's nuclear power plants, just a few days after cyber-security experts warned the public that the malware might be targeting Tehran's nuclear facilities. Mahmoud Jafari, who leads Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant, told the IRNA news agency that authorities at the plant are currently trying ...

An awe-inspiringly complex piece of malware named 'Stuxnet' has some security experts openly wondering whether or not it's the most sophisticated worm ever to hit the planet. Others are speculating that it may be used to target a nuclear plant in Iran. Although the worm originally popped up in June, when it attacked Windows PCs operating industrial control systems, cyber experts are only now ...

A new survey of government IT administrators reveals that almost three-quarters of them (74-percent, to be exact) expect the U.S. to be targeted by a foreign power in a cyber-attack this year. More alarmingly, 42-percent of those surveyed rated the government's ability to respond to or protect against such an attack as only "fair" or "poor." The threats to our cybersecurity are seen as coming ...

The Internet, with its vast amount of information and myriad services, has undeniably changed the way we live. It makes communicating across the world, finding a nearby restaurant, or getting directions to just about anywhere as simple as typing a few words and clicking a few buttons. But the open nature of the Web makes it just as useful for terrorists as it does us normal folk. AP reported ...

After the numerous and troubling cyberattacks in Estonia in the summer of 2007, many wondered how we'd (the US, that is) fare if we were the subject of a similar attack. Researchers predicted the answer would be "not so well," and that prediction has been shown to be true after a recent "cyberwar" simulation in which American defenses were found to be "way behind where we need to be now." The ...