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Fake White House Holiday E-Mail Contained Dangerous Malware

An e-mailed Christmas greeting purportedly from the White House actually contained dangerous malware aimed at extracting sensitive financial data and documents from government employees. The bogus e-mail, discovered last week, was a ruse by cybercriminals who may have been primarily interested in accessing documents by...

US Also Vulnerable to Stuxnet Virus, Official Warns

(Dec. 7) -- The computer virus Stuxnet, which some experts believe was created specifically to target Iran's nuclear facilities, could also threaten U.S. infrastructure, a senior Department of Homeland Security official says. "That virus focused on specific software implementations, and those software implementations did...

Hawaii U Posted Private Info of 40,000 Students Online

(Oct. 29) -- More than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students now know what plenty of others before them have regrettably experienced firsthand: Security online can be elusive. The students' Social Security numbers, grades and other private information were made public after a faculty member at the school...

Stuxnet Close-Up: All You Need to Know About the Mighty Malware

(Sept. 27) -- The virus lurked quietly over the summer, but last week, it dominated headlines around the world, and now it's arrival has been confirmed: Stuxnet attacked Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, which was scheduled to go online this fall. The news has led experts to speculate that the highly sophisticated...

Cyber Commander: Attack on Equipment Next Threat

(Sept. 23) -- Previous high-profile cyberattacks have focused primarily on disrupting or hacking into computer networks, but the next wave of attacks could be launched against physical equipment, the general in charge of defending the nation's military networks said today. "What concerns me the most are destructive...