Remember Stuxnet? The internet virus attacking Iranian industrial facilities that we heard about in the fall of 2010? In the months since Stuxnet came to light, Symantec, a security firm, has been ...

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure, there was no known physical ...

Stuxnet is a digital ghost, countless lines of code crafted with such genius that it was able to worm its way into Iran’s nuclear fuel enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran, where gas centrifuges spin ...

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are essentially specialized industrial computers that read data from sensors and use that data to automate the control of electromechanical processes, such as the ...

Good morning! Here’s some of this morning’s interesting tech nuggets for you to enjoy over breakfast. Iranian hacker claims Stuxnet revenge attack In a post on Pastebin, an anonymous Iranian hacker ...

Three years after the Stuxnet computer worm first became known, its threat is still being evaluated — but what's clear is that it has raised the stakes in the worldwide race to create cyber weapons.

The highly sophisticated malware known as the Stuxnet worm operated undetected for nearly six months while carrying out its stealth attack on utility infrastructure around the globe. Read about how it ...

WASHINGTON — A sophisticated worm designed to infiltrate industrial control systems could be used as a blueprint to sabotage machines that are critical to U.S. power plants, electrical grids and other ...

Gen. James Cartwright retired from the Marine Corps in August 2011. June 28, 2013— -- Retired Gen. James Cartwright, the former vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the target of a ...

November's International Atomic Energy Agency report implied that the Stuxnet virus delayed, but didn't derail, Iran's nuclear program. Nevertheless, the worm's precision strike seems to have spawned ...

In 2010, a computer worm called Stuxnet sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program. It wasn’t ordinary malware—it was the world’s first true cyberweapon, capable of crippling nations. Hitmen ambush and kill ...