Stuxnet is a digital ghost, countless lines of code crafted with such genius that it was able to worm its way into Iran’s nuclear fuel enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran, where gas centrifuges spin ...

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are essentially specialized industrial computers that read data from sensors and use that data to automate the control of electromechanical processes, such as the ...

The highly sophisticated malware known as the Stuxnet worm operated undetected for nearly six months while carrying out its stealth attack on utility infrastructure around the globe. Read about how it ...

Three years after the Stuxnet computer worm first became known, its threat is still being evaluated — but what's clear is that it has raised the stakes in the worldwide race to create cyber weapons.

Remember Stuxnet? The internet virus attacking Iranian industrial facilities that we heard about in the fall of 2010? In the months since Stuxnet came to light, Symantec, a security firm, has been ...

— -- President Barack Obama ordered a secret wave of sophisticated computer attacks on Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities, according to the New York Times. Obama decided to accelerate the ...

November's International Atomic Energy Agency report implied that the Stuxnet virus delayed, but didn't derail, Iran's nuclear program. Nevertheless, the worm's precision strike seems to have spawned ...

June 11 (Reuters) - A leading computer security firm has linked some of the software code in the powerful Flame virus to the Stuxnet cyber weapon, which was widely believed to have been used by the ...

Good morning! Here’s some of this morning’s interesting tech nuggets for you to enjoy over breakfast. Iranian hacker claims Stuxnet revenge attack In a post on Pastebin, an anonymous Iranian hacker ...

WASHINGTON — A sophisticated worm designed to infiltrate industrial control systems could be used as a blueprint to sabotage machines that are critical to U.S. power plants, electrical grids and other ...