cyberwar

Stealthy Shape Security Lands $6 Million From Kleiner Perkins and Eric Schmidt

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 26 at 5:04 am PT

A security start-up aims to change the economics of launching hacking attacks.

Researchers Show How Easy a New Stuxnet-Like Attack Can Be

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 6 at 7:07 am PT

While the Stuxnet worm was seen as difficult to make, inherent weaknesses found in widely used industrial control computers make attacks like that surprisingly easy to carry out, new research says.

Government Security Gurus: All Our Networks Are Belong to Them

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 23 at 4:45 am PT

And by “them,” they mean the bad guys: Spies, terrorists and troublemakers.

CBS’s “60 Minutes” Casts Its Eye on Stuxnet Worm

Arik Hesseldahl in Media on March 3 at 7:23 pm PT

The popular TV news show revisits the subject of cyberwar with a profile of the worm that is said to have damaged Iran’s nuclear program.

Operation Shady RAT: The Biggest Hacking Attack Ever

Arik Hesseldahl in News on August 3, 2011 at 7:15 am PT

The biggest network intrusion ever has been carried out since 2006 against organizations in 72 countries. You get three guesses who the attacker is thought to be, but you probably only need one. Need a hint? It wasn’t LulzSec.

Anonymous Hacks NATO, Steals Lame Documents

Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 21, 2011 at 11:06 am PT

The hacking group Anonymous raised eyebrows today for its “daring hacker raid” on the servers of NATO. What did it take? A bunch of documents that so far seem, well, boring, really.

Cyberwar: It’s Not Just Fiction Anymore

Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 16, 2011 at 3:22 pm PT

After surviving numerous devastating wars throughout history, humanity is well acquainted with war in the physical realm. But we’re still unfamiliar with the concept of cyberwar, except perhaps in movie thrillers. That’s all about to change.

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White House Advisor: Use of Term Cyberwar "Terrible"

Michael Hickins, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 16, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

White House cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt said that policymakers and others should stop “conflating… cyberwar with cyber-espionage with cybercrime.”

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Battling the Cyber Warmongers

Evgeny Morozov, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 10, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

A recent simulation of a devastating cyberattack on America was crying for a Bruce Willis lead: A series of mysterious attacks–probably sanctioned by China but traced to servers in the Russian city of Irkutsk–crippled much of the national infrastructure, including air traffic, financial markets and even basic email. If this was not bad enough, an unrelated electricity outage took down whatever remained of the already unplugged East Coast.