http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP)—An Iranian semi-official news agency says there has been another cyberattack by the sophisticated computer worm Stuxnet, this time on the industries in the country's south. http://phys.org/news275676513.html Technology Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:48:45 EST news275676513 (Phys.org) -- Now that tiny computers and electronic communications systems are being designed into cars, hackers can look toward the car, like the PC, as potential roadkill. If cars are to become computers on wheels, a number of security experts are expanding their focus on car security systems and sources of security threats. U.S. computer scientists from California and Washington state have already identified ways in which computer worms and Trojans are carried over to automobiles. Conduits include onboard diagnostics systems, wireless connections and even tainted CDs played on radios systems. http://phys.org/news264697170.html Technology Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:20:01 EST news264697170 Last week's New York Times adapted a portion of David Sanger's forthcoming "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power," which reveals that the United States has secretly conducted cyberattacks against Iran for several years. Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research Fellow and Maurer School of Law Professor David P. Fidler said the article raises important questions. His commentary follows: http://phys.org/news258017068.html Technology Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:00:01 EST news258017068 (AP) -- A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government's ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth. http://phys.org/news247754548.html Technology Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:20:02 EST news247754548 Iran said on Sunday it had found a way to "control" the computer malware Duqu, which is similar to Stuxnet virus which in 2010 attacked its nuclear programme and infected more than 30,000 computers. http://phys.org/news240409705.html Technology Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:28:37 EST news240409705 US security firm Symantec has warned of a new computer virus similar to the malicious Stuxnet worm believed to have preyed on Iran's nuclear program. http://phys.org/news238228145.html Technology Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:29:32 EST news238228145 Russia believes Israel and the United States were responsible for unleashing the malicious Stuxnet computer worm on Iran's nuclear programme last year, a top official said Friday. http://phys.org/news235993272.html Technology Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:44:39 EST news235993272 The world is entering an era of a cyber arms race where ever-more sophisticated versions of malware are the weapons of choice of actors often impossible to trace, a top IT expert told NATO Friday. http://phys.org/news226923907.html Technology Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:40:01 EST news226923907 As the nation's electrical power grid becomes more interconnected through the Internet -- from the nuclear power plant in California to transmission lines in Texas to the microwave in your kitchen -- the chances of cyber attacks increase as well. Errin Fulp, a professor of computer science at Wake Forest University, is training an army of "digital ants" to turn loose into the power grid to seek out computer viruses trying to wreak havoc on the system. http://phys.org/news225990898.html Technology Mon, 30 May 2011 16:15:31 EST news225990898 Iran has been hit with new malicious software as part of cyber attacks against the country, a military officer told Mehr news agency on Monday without specifying the target. http://phys.org/news222948664.html Technology Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:11:32 EST news222948664 A senior Iranian military official involved in investigating a mysterious computer worm targeting Iranian nuclear facilities and other industrial sites said Saturday the malware could have caused large-scale accidents and loss of life. http://phys.org/news222234238.html Technology Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:44:45 EST news222234238 (AP) -- Iranian hackers working for the powerful Revolutionary Guard's paramilitary Basij group have launched attacks on websites of the "enemies," a state-owned newspaper reported Monday in a rare acknowledgment from Iran that it's involved in cyber warfare. http://phys.org/news219302021.html Technology Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:13:56 EST news219302021 A German computer security expert said Thursday he believes the United States and Israel's Mossad unleashed the malicious Stuxnet worm on Iran's nuclear program. http://phys.org/news218394430.html Technology Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:07:34 EST news218394430 A cyber-attack that targeted Iranian nuclear centrifuges producing enriched uranium in November did not affect the country's nuclear programme, an Iranian official said in Moscow on Thursday. http://phys.org/news214754268.html Technology Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:10:01 EST news214754268 US and Israeli intelligence services collaborated to develop a destructive computer worm to sabotage Iran's efforts to make a nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported Sunday. http://phys.org/news214385017.html Technology Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:24:07 EST news214385017 (AP) -- Iran claimed Tuesday that a computer worm found on the laptops of several employees at the country's nuclear power plant is part of a covert Western plot to derail its nuclear program. http://phys.org/news205481180.html Technology Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:30:03 EST news205481180 A mysterious computer worm that has struck Iran has raised the spectre of a cyber attack as a new weapon of war, a danger NATO identifies as a key threat, experts say. http://phys.org/news205132978.html Technology Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:00:02 EST news205132978 Computer hackers have warned that a week-long national holiday in China from Friday could leave the country vulnerable to further attack from a potentially lethal computer virus. http://phys.org/news205132903.html Technology Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:22:15 EST news205132903 A computer virus dubbed the world's "first cyber superweapon" by experts and which may have been designed to attack Iran's nuclear facilities has found a new target -- China. http://phys.org/news205050403.html Technology Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:27:26 EST news205050403 The Stuxnet worm is mutating and wreaking further havoc on computerised industrial equipment in Iran where about 30,000 IP addresses have already been infected, IRNA news agency reported on Monday. http://phys.org/news204793427.html Technology Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:20:03 EST news204793427 The Stuxnet computer worm has infected 30,000 computers in Iran but has failed to "cause serious damage," Iranian officials were quoted as saying on Sunday. http://phys.org/news204701147.html Technology Sun, 26 Sep 2010 06:26:04 EST news204701147 An annual security report being released Tuesday by technology titan Cisco warns that banks and online social networks are prime targets for increasingly sophisticated cyber crooks. http://phys.org/news179482733.html Technology Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:20:01 EST news179482733 In the never-ending battle to protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature's hardiest creatures -- the ant. http://phys.org/news173108776.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:46:51 EST news173108776 (AP) -- The race to build a "smarter" electrical grid could have a dark side. Security experts are starting to show the dangers of equipping homes and businesses with new meters that enable two-way communication with utilities. http://phys.org/news168270648.html Technology Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:51:33 EST news168270648 A computer worm that has alarmed security experts around the world has crawled into hundreds of medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other countries, according to technologists monitoring the threat. http://phys.org/news160331005.html Technology Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:23:42 EST news160331005 The Conficker worm's creators are evidently toying with ways to put the pervasive computer virus to work firing off spam or spreading rogue anti-virus applications called "scareware." http://phys.org/news160130587.html Technology Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:44:02 EST news160130587 (AP) -- The Conficker worm, a nasty computer infection that has poisoned millions of PCs, will start ramping up its efforts Wednesday to use those machines for cybercrimes. It's unclear whether everyday PC users will even notice, but this is as good an excuse as any to make sure your computer is clean. http://phys.org/news157728313.html Technology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:26:20 EST news157728313 Thanks to an ingenious new strategy devised by researchers at University of California, Davis and Intel Corporation, computer network administrators might soon be able to mount effective, low-cost defenses against self-propagating infectious programs known as worms. http://phys.org/news151082993.html Technology Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:29:53 EST news151082993