Crucial questions remain unanswered Cybersecurity efforts in the United States have largely centered on defending computer networks against attacks by hackers, criminals and foreign governments, mainly China. Increasingly, however, the focus is on developing offensive [...]

A new security approach would let users input patterns instead of words to verify identity It seems like something out of a Robert Ludlum spy novel. Someone tries to coerce you into revealing your computer [...]

It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it [...]

The failure to protect the Flame code from being reverse engineered may turn out to have been a monumental error. The discovery of a new species of highly sophisticated malware earlier this week adds another [...]

Computer networks are the battlefields in cyberwarfare, as exemplified by the United States’ recent use of computer viruses to attack Iran’s nuclear program. A computer model developed at the University of Missouri could help military [...]

Nobody can quite figure out rules for use of engagement and response   Small, faraway conflicts could precipitate an attack against the U.S., so cyberdefense could drop the ‘fortress’ mentality for a focused set of [...]

Cybersecurity is now a major international concern, with hackers gaining access to sensitive corporate and military secrets, including intellectual property. An American cybersecurity company issued a report on Wednesday saying that it had identified a [...]

Countries are beginning to develop cyberwarfare policies to protect their national interests, but defending oneself in the borderless Internet will prove problematic There is speculation among some politicians and pundits that the fog of war [...]

Last year’s Stuxnet virus attack represented a new kind of threat to critical infrastructure. Just over a year ago, a computer in Iran started repeatedly rebooting itself, seemingly without reason. Suspecting some kind of malicious [...]

Image via Wikipedia It is time for countries to start talking about arms control on the internet THROUGHOUT history new technologies have revolutionised warfare, sometimes abruptly, sometimes only gradually: think of the chariot, gunpowder, aircraft, [...]

The nominee to head the Pentagon’s new CyberCommand testified in front of Congress late last week that employing Cold War strategies to cyberwarfare challenges may not work for the United States.. A newly published research [...]