Tagged: Stuxnet
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Utilities Unbundled Reports
12.07.2011 We all know the story: energy resources are increasingly scarce and demand is rising. The need to scale back on both demand and supply is already starting to change how we use... -
Cyber Cold War begins: US lawmakers strive to block Chinese comms firms Huawei and ZTE News
09.10.2012 US lawmakers are striving to prevent US telecoms companies doing business with Chinese telecoms equipment makers like Huawei and ZTE. The US House of Representatives’...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software, Social Media, Security, Networking & Telecoms, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Government, Communications -
US created Stuxnet – went to ‘cyber war’ with Iran on Obama’s orders News
01.06.2012 The US is at cyber war with Iran. Actually it has been at cyber war with Iran since the start of the Obama administration and authored the Stuxnet virus that has since spun out... -
The greatest viruses of all time (infographic) News
30.05.2012 A new infographic charts the worst computer viruses of all time, those small but mighty menaces that have cost organisations millions of dollars in lost property and revenue. -
New super cyber weapon ‘Flame’ identified News
29.05.2012 New spy malware that is said to be 20 times larger than the cyber weapon Stuxnet has apparently been identified infecting systems in several countries in the Middle East such as... -
Strategy 2011 - the year of high-profile hacker attacks News
28.12.2011 The year 2011 was the year of Anonymous and LulzSec, and of course WikiLeaks, in terms of how the established order of things were shook to the very core by the internet world.... -
Hackers attack US water system – new age of cyber terror begins News
21.11.2011 An investigation is under way into reports that hackers managed to remotely shut down a water system in Illinois. At the dawn of the age of cyber terrorism against nations, the...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Security, Global CIO, Data Management, CIO -
Security alert: meet ‘Duqu’ the son of Stuxnet News
19.10.2011 Dubbed ‘the son of Stuxnet’ a new attack called Duqu with similar characteristics is on the rampage. Duqu’s purpose is to gather intelligence from industrial control systems...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Security, Risk Management, Energy, Computers -
Cyber warfare: the battle has barely begun News
02.06.2011 With the US developing cyber weapons and resolving to treat attacks on its computer networks as an act of war requiring a military response, it is clear that information warfare...Categories: Software & Web Development, Servers, Security, IT Organisation, IT Management, Government, Data Centre, CIO -
Dramatic rise in cyber attacks on power utilities News
19.04.2011 Some 40pc of IT security executives in charge of critical electricity infrastructure around the world, such as power grids, oil, gas and water, expect a major cyber attack...Categories: Software & Web Development, Security, IT Management, Infrastructure Management, Global CIO, Energy -
Weekend news roundup News
18.04.2011 In our review of the weekend’s newspapers, how Silicon Valley’s finest firms roared back from the Great Recession, bungling UK civil servants have published secret data online... -
Malware takes massive jump as criminals exploit toolkits News
05.04.2011 There were more than 286m new malware threats last year and the number of measured web-based attacks per day increased by 93pc compared to 2009, according to Symantec’s annual... -
US plans ‘internet kill switch’ amid Middle East turmoil News
30.01.2011 In what has to be the ultimate irony or simply bad timing, the United States is in the midst of revisiting the creation of an internet kill switch to defend against cyber...Categories: Wireless Communications, Web, Social Media, Security, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Internet, Government, Communications -
Cyber warfare doesn’t have capacity to cause global shock News
19.01.2011 The recent Stuxnet attack which originated in Israel and succeeded in disabling and damaging Iran’s nuclear programme indicates that cyber warfare is already upon us.Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, Security, Search Engines, Internet, Government, Global CIO, Enterprise Applications, CIO -
Weekend news roundup News
17.01.2011 A quick glance at some of the technology stories breaking in the weekend papers. -
WikiLeaks story underscores year in security News
05.01.2011 Security became very prominent in 2010 on several fronts but we don’t have to look too far back to find one of the year’s biggest stories. The furore around the latest set of... -
Stuxnet worms its way into the black market News
26.11.2010 Source code for the Stuxnet, the malware that targeted Iran’s uranium enrichment plant recently, has reportedly made it onto underground forums, a springboard from which it has... -
Stuxnet-like malware targeting intellectual property News
25.11.2010 Stuxnet, the malware that was used to intentionally target the Tehran uranium enrichment plant in Iran, has begun to crop up again in different guises, according to a team of... -
US defence companies branch out into cyber protection News
25.11.2010 It would seem that no matter how profitable the trade, not even the defence industry has been able to protect itself from the global recession and has had to look further afield...