Boston: Security experts said on Monday a highly sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries and may have been deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage. Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010, according to...
02:12 PM, May 29, 2012
Washington: The Pentagon is about to roll out an expanded effort to safeguard its contractors from hackers and is building a virtual firing range in cyberspace to test new technologies, according to officials familiar with the plans, as a recent wave of cyber attacks boosts concerns about US vulnerability to digital warfare. The twin efforts show how President Barack Obama's administration is racing on multiple fronts to plug the holes...
09:39 AM, Jun 18, 2011
Beijing: Google has become a "political tool" vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said on Monday, warning that the US Internet giant's statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business. The tough warning appeared in the overseas edition of the People's Daily, the leading newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party, indicating that political tensions between the United States and China over Internet security could linger....
02:19 PM, Jun 06, 2011
London: From the satellite pictures on Google Earth, Jinan looks like any other Chinese city - sprawling construction sites, massive factory blocks, apartment buildings, a university, dozens of railway lines and wide-open plazas. But according to the Internet giant, somewhere in the city - the capital of China's eastern Shandong province - are the computer servers used to try to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google e-mail account holders....
09:14 AM, Jun 03, 2011
London: Attacks on computer systems now have the potential to cause global catastrophe, but only in combination with another disaster, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a report on Monday. The study, part of a wider OECD project examining possible "Future Global Shocks" such as a failure of the world's financial system or a large-scale pandemic, said there were very few single "cyber events" that could...
11:52 AM, Jan 17, 2011
London: Britain's military chief says he wants to set up a UK version of America's Cyber Command, the Pentagon's newly formed cyber warfare division. Gen David Richards was quoted in the Sunday Times as saying that cyber attacks were going to be a part of future warfare "just as tanks and aircraft are today," and that he wanted Britain to work on its offensive capabilities. The paper said that Richards,...
12:22 AM, Jan 10, 2011
Berlin: Germany will create a new cyber-warfare defence centre next year to fight off espionage attacks, the German interior ministry said. "We plan to create a so-called 'National Cyber-Defence Centre' in 2011," a spokesman told reporters on Monday. "It will work by bundling existing know-how in the area of cyber defence." As computer systems become more important to control essential services, from power grids to banking, computerised attacks are seen...
11:54 AM, Dec 28, 2010
London: Cyber activists attacking organizations seen as foes of WikiLeaks briefly blocked a Dutch prosecution website on Friday after a 16-year-old suspected of involvement in the campaign was arrested in the Netherlands. The activists also tried to block the website of online payment firm Moneybookers, but denied their attacks were intended to create business turmoil or badly disrupt online Christmas shopping. Several companies have ended services to WikiLeaks after it...
01:26 PM, Dec 11, 2010
London: WikiLeaks supporters on Friday downloaded increasing amounts of the spam-shooting software used to attack companies seen as hostile - a development that could challenge even Internet giants such as PayPal and Amazon.com during the crucial Christmas shopping season. US data security company Imperva says downloads of the attack program used to bombard websites with bogus requests for data have jumped to over 40,000, with thousands of new downloads reported...
12:59 PM, Dec 11, 2010
London: The website attacks launched by supporters of WikiLeaks show 21st-century cyber warfare evolving into a more amateur and anarchic affair than many predicted. While most countries have plowed much more attention and resources into cyber security in recent years, most of the debate has focused on the threat from militant groups such as al Qaeda or mainstream state on state conflict. But attempts to silence WikiLeaks after the leaking...
04:29 PM, Dec 09, 2010
London: Al Qaeda scares airlines with parcel bombs worth $ 4,000. War with the Taliban costs the West billions of dollars a week. North Korea shells disputed land, winning instant fresh attention in a standoff with major powers. Weaker combatants have always used unconventional or inexpensive means to defy stronger foes, including guerrilla warfare and suicide attacks that depend on a greater willingness to sacrifice life. This approach can be...
07:07 PM, Nov 30, 2010
London: Britain is devoting more energy to understanding and developing "weaponry" for cyber warfare than any other military area, armed forces chief General David Richards said on Monday. "It's very genuinely a huge priority for us," Richards said. "Along with like-minded nations in NATO for example, we are more actively expanding our understanding and weaponry in this area than in any other area," he told an audience during questions that...
11:34 AM, Nov 23, 2010
London: Countries are already using cyber warfare techniques to attack each other and need to be vigilant round the clock to protect computer systems, the head of Britain's communications spy agency says. Iain Lobban, the director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), said British government systems are targeted 1,000 times each month. "Cyberspace is contested every day, every hour, every minute, every second," he said late on Tuesday in a...
12:54 PM, Oct 14, 2010
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