The Stuxnet virus that last year damaged Iran's nuclear program was likely one of at least five cyber weapons developed on a single platform whose roots trace back to 2007, according to new research ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. July marks one year since the world learned of Stuxnet, the mysterious computer worm that launched the first successful cyberattack on ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency has released its latest report about the current state of Iran’s nuclear program that's based on intelligence supplied by member states of the IAEA. In this ...

In November 1988, the first computer worm indiscriminately propagated through 6,000 Unix systems, or roughly 10 percent of the computer systems on the Internet. Although developed with innocuous ...

A highly sophisticated computer worm that has spread through Iran, Indonesia and India was built to destroy operations at one target: possibly Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor. That’s the emerging ...

FireEye described the virus, which it dubbed IRONGATE, as “an [industrial control system]-focused malware crafted to manipulate a specific industrial process running within a simulated Siemens control ...

*Too bad any number of interested parties have got this thing figured out by now. Hope you don't have any mission-critical SCADA systems running under Windows. Researchers determined that Stuxnet was ...

Researchers have identified a new malware threat which has been dubbed “Duqu”. The new threat is apparently developed by the same author who developed the Stuxnet worm that was used in targeted ...

I was one of the first to report about the source of the Stuxnet computer virus in The American Conservative magazine back in December 2010. It was created in an Israeli laboratory at its Dimona ...

Commentary - Recent revelations about the wide-scale and targeted Stuxnet worm attack directed at a nuclear power plant in Iran should raise red flags to all IT security professionals and managers of ...

The Stuxnet worm, aimed at the centrifuges in Iran’s Natanz plant, transformed the cybersecurity field because it was the first known computer attack specifically designed to cause physical damage.