Stuxnet Virus

Cyber space is the new global battleground where countries, corporations, and mischief makers engage in unrelenting attacks on anything, and everything, hi-tech. A new cyber virus has Iran and other Middle Eastern countries pointing a finger at Uncle...

Reports that the U.S. and Israel have tried repeatedly over the years to derailIran's nuclear weapons program by using malicious computer codes to cause machines at the country's Natanz nuclear facility to malfunction have lifted the veil of secrecy...

Huddled over laptop computers, four midshipmen spent 20 minutes setting up a wireless network and tested it with what they assumed was a private chat. But Ensign Justin Monroe, a teaching assistant at the Naval Academy, used a small wireless receiver...

A report this week on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program by the International Atomic Energy Agency leaves little doubt that country's ruling clerics remain determined to acquire the means to produce a bomb. That poses a dilemma for the Obama...

The supreme leader of Iran called for a new council to oversee cyberspace Wednesday, an aggressive step in its ongoing crackdown on the Internet. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a decree calling for the creation of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, a new...

A panel of robotics experts at the South by Southwest conference couldn't reach a consensus Tuesday on whether machines would soon take over the Earth. But they agreed that the advances in artificial intelligence are well-nigh unstoppable....

The Iranian Oil Ministry said its computer system was targeted by a computer virus, but it downplayed the impact of the attack....

WASHINGTON, DC -- Federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois last week, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack on a U.S. industrial system. The...

Israelis are taking a keen interest in the deadly explosion at a weapons facility in Iran that killed 17 people. Iran has said the explosion was an accident, not sabotage or an attack. But Israel's top-three dailies put the "mysterious explosion" on their...