4 posts and columns on sabotage

How Scary Was the Internet in 2011?

in News on January 1 at 3:22 pm PT

How scary was the Internet in 2011? It depends on what you consider scary. News of attacks, some silly, some downright chilling, created uneasiness all year.
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2010 Was the Year the Internet Got Scary. Get Used to It.

in Enterprise on December 30, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

The year just ending started with an attack on Google by China and ended with the WikiLeaks affair. In the meantime, the Stuxnet worm showed the way toward a world where skilled hackers can cause serious real-world damage. Scared yet?

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Iran Claims Computer Worm Is a Western Conspiracy

in News on October 5, 2010 at 2:07 pm PT

Earlier today, Ramin Mehmanparast, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, claimed that the Stuxnet worm, which infected several laptops at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, is part of a Western plot to sabotage the country’s nuclear program. Though U.S. officials have accused Iran of using civil nuclear sites to cover for the development of atomic weapons, Iranian officials maintain that the program is peaceful. The exact origin of the Stuxnet code, which was designed to sabotage industrial sites, remains unknown.

Destroy All Bandwidth!

in News on February 20, 2008 at 12:39 am PT

During the week of Jan. 28, Internet access to a large portion of the Middle East and South Asia was disrupted when five undersea Internet cables were cut or damaged in relatively quick succession. Egypt lost about 70% of its Internet capacity, India about 50%. What caused the disruptions? Finding five accidental failures in a [...]