MARCH 31, 2011 An assault on Estonia in 2007 disrupted banking and other services for over a week. By WARREN GETLER Last week, the European Union revealed that its headquarters had come under a major cyber attack, likely state-sponsored, on the eve of the EU summit. Earlier this month, the French announced that they had […]
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latimes.com Virtual war a real threat The U.S. is vulnerable to a cyber attack, with its electrical grids, pipelines, chemical plants and other infrastructure designed without security in mind. Some say not enough is being done to protect the country. By Ken Dilanian, Washington Bureau March 28, 2011 Reporting from Washington When a large Southern
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JANUARY 18, 2011 A neat computer trick won’t stop Iran from getting the bomb. By BRET STEPHENS Long before there was the Stuxnet computer worm there was the “Farewell” spy dossier. In 1980, a KGB officer named Vladimir Vetrov began passing secrets to French intelligence. Vetrov was in a position to know the names of
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NEWS & OBSERVER, Raleigh Jan 16, 2011 The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. Over the past two years, according to experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new, equally
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WALL STREET JOURNAL JANUARY 5, 2011 Covert Action Makes a Comeback Once in disrepute, secret warfare is now embraced even by the Obama administration to fight terrorism and weapons proliferation. By MAX BOOT We’re in an era of “covert action.” That phrase went into disrepute in the 1970s, when Congress’s Church Committee exposed hare-brained CIA
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Stuxnet versus the Iranian nuclear program. Jonathan V. Last December 13, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 13 Last week Mahmoud Ahmadinejad acknowledged that Iran’s uranium enrichment program had suffered a setback: “They were able to disable on a limited basis some of our centrifuges by software installed in electronic equipment,”
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Stuxnet Worm Still Out of Control at Iran’s Nuclear Sites, Experts Say By Ed Barnes Published December 09, 2010 | FoxNews.com Iran International Photo Agency, via AFP Aug 21: The first fuel is loaded into the reactor building at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran. EXCLUSIVE: Iran’s nuclear program is still in chaos
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DECEMBER 6, 2010 We should think of cyberattacks as guided missiles and respond similarly—intercept them and retaliate. By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Not many people realize that all of our nation’s air, land and sea forces rely on network technologies that are vulnerable to cyberweapons, including logistics, command and control, fleet positioning and
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WASHINGTON TIMES Stopping the Next Stuxnet by Austin Bay October 20, 2010Can a worm bust a hydroelectric dam, on command? The cyber-warrior scenario goes something like this: If the worm is a computer worm (or other digital malware) infecting a dam’s computer system, it might be possible to use the malicious code to take control
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Computer worm creates an opening for copycats By Shaun Waterman The Washington Times Sunday, October 10, 2010 **FILE** In this photo from Nov. 30, 2009, released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, the reactor building of Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen just outside the port city of Bushehr, 750 miles south of
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