Leading cyber experts warned of a shortage of talented computer security experts in the United States, making it difficult to protect corporate and government networks...Reuters From ACM Careers | June 13, 2012
Eugene Kaspersky, whose lab discovered the Flame virus that has attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East, said on Wednesday only a global effort...Reuters From ACM Opinion | June 6, 2012
ICANN announced that it will notify all companies who were affected by the recent data breach in the top-level domain Applicant System that allowed other applicants...Reuters From ACM TechNews | May 1, 2012
The Stuxnet virus that 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...Reuters From ACM News | January 3, 2012
A cyber warfare expert claims he has linked the Stuxnet computer virus that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010 to Conficker, a mysterious "worm" that surfaced...Reuters From ACM News | December 5, 2011
The U.S. government turned to cyberexperts at the Idaho National Laboratory to analyze the Stuxnet computer virus when it first came out. Reuters From ACM TechNews | October 4, 2011
Behind the doors of a nondescript red brick and gray building of the Idaho National Laboratory is the malware laboratory where government cyber experts analyzed...Reuters From ACM News | September 30, 2011
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing the National Cyber Range, a model of the Internet that will enable researchers to test defense...Reuters From ACM TechNews | June 20, 2011
The Pentagon is about to roll out an expanded effort to safeguard its contractors from hackers and is building a virtual firing range in cyberspace to test new...Reuters From ACM News | June 17, 2011
The United States and China need to forge an agreement restricting cyberattacks and designating some areas as out of bounds to hacking, say former U.S. Secretary...Reuters From ACM TechNews | June 16, 2011
U.S. Defense secretary Robert Gates recently told members of The Wall Street Journal CEO Council that the threat from cybertechnologies will grow from "considerable"...Reuters From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2010
The U.S. Department of Defense aims to tighten ties with its cyber security contractors in an effort to better protect sensitive computer networks against growing...Reuters From ACM News | October 21, 2010
U.S. Department of Defense official James Miller says authorities have failed to stay ahead of the cyberattacks, which have resulted in the loss of an enormous...Reuters From ACM TechNews | May 14, 2010
China is in consultations with technology giant Google to resolve its dispute with the company, which has threatened to abandon the Chinese market over hacking...Reuters From ACM News | March 5, 2010
Schools in Beijing are quietly removing the Green Dam filter, which was required for all school computers in July, due to complaints over problems with the software...Reuters From ACM News | September 15, 2009
The results of a two-day cyberwar simulation involving 230 representatives from U.S. government defense and security agencies, private companies, and civil groups...Reuters From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2008