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 ...

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 ...

In 2009, centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility began behaving abnormally, damaging equipment and setting back Iran’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.

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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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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