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Illustrative image of conceptual cyber attack code. (DaLiu/iStock by Getty images)
May 17, 2019, 6:52 am
Iran claims to develop defense against Stuxnet-like attacks
Communications minister says Iranian scientists have created a firewall to block computer viruses from harming infrastructure, like bug that damaged nuclear centrifuges
By TOI staff
In this February 8, 2018, file photo, the logo for Twitter is displayed above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
December 20, 2018, 6:24 pm
Twitter says it blocked 22 Hamas and Hezbollah accounts at Israel’s request
In new report, social networking giant says it suspended 205,156 accounts for promoting terrorism during first half of 2018, having flagged most of them itself
By Sue Surkes
US President Donald Trump (left) meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 10, 2017. (Russian Foreign Ministry via AP)
June 12, 2017, 2:35 pm
Trump’s Russian leak said to reveal Israeli cyber hack of IS bomb cell
NY Times claims US president blew the cover off an Israeli computer unit’s infiltration of terror group, which found it was planning to blow up airliners with exploding laptops
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
A woman walks past a television screen showing file footage of North Korea's missile launch at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, February 12, 2017. (AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)
March 4, 2017, 7:39 pm
Obama launched cyberwar to sabotage N. Korea missile program: report
Effort failed to make significant gains and US still cannot counter mounting threat from Pyongyang, New York Times reports
By AFP
Deborah Housen-Couriel
December 31, 2016, 1:50 pm
Deborah Housen-Couriel
Cyber-warfare comes of age
The ferocious US retaliation against Russia for meddling in elections is a watershed moment in cyber-diplomacy
Illustrative computer virus. (istock)
December 15, 2016, 4:53 pm
Mutually assured cyber destruction?
Op-ed: Experts say first the US, then some of the West’s enemies, have developed the capability to shut down entire countries at the flip of a switch
By David Horovitz
An Iranian security guard stands at the Maroun petrochemical plant at the Imam Khomeini port, southwestern Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)
September 22, 2016, 7:08 pm
Blazes at Iran petrochemical plants raise suspicions of cyberattack
Tehran insists recent fires at several oil complexes unrelated to hacking, but officials last month acknowledged malware infection
By Jon Gambrell
Cyber-attack (Shutterstock)
July 8, 2016, 12:45 am
‘Potential threat of cyberweapons is huge’
‘Zero Days’ filmmaker Alex Gibney calls Stuxnet virus that hit Iran’s nuclear program a sign of things to come
By BREE FOWLER
Image posted on a militant website on January 14, 2014, shows Islamic State fighters marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP/Militant Website)
April 27, 2016, 8:20 am
US Army launches cyber warfare on Islamic State
Baghdad-based general says military using ‘exquisite capabilities’ whose results are ‘very effective’
By AFP
Illustrative: computer security (cyber security image via Shutterstock)
November 5, 2015, 8:49 am
Iran said to step up cyber-attacks on US officials
American officials link spate of hacks to Tehran’s anti-normalization crackdown and arrests of Americans in Iran
By TOI staff
In this May 5, 2015, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, after a news conference. (Evan Vucci/AP)
October 8, 2015, 3:11 am
Senate passes defense bill that supports US-Israel partnerships
President opposes bill due to funding woes, leading Democrats to try and sink legislation, contents of which they mostly support
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
A computer, illustrative (CC BY-SA HackNY, Flickr)
December 4, 2014, 12:52 am
Iran hackers penetrate key world networks, say researchers
Report finds Tehran ramped up cyber capabilities after 2010 Stuxnet attack, targeting governments, companies and airports
By Rob Lever
Udo Helmbrecht, the director of the European Network and Information Security Agency, in Athens on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Derek Gatopoulos)
October 31, 2014, 11:04 am
EU holds largest-ever cyber defense exercise
European Network and Information Security Agency says global web attacks increased by a quarter from 2012-2013
By AP
One of the text messages sent out by Islamist hackers (Photo credit: Courtesy)
March 23, 2014, 5:57 pm
Hacked cyber-defense site may be source for recent text threats
Islamist hackers apparently target IsraelDefense, sponsor of Cybertech 2014 earlier this year
By David Shamah
James Morris
March 12, 2014, 11:57 am
James Morris
Following Israel’s cyber security lead
The United Kingdom can learn from the Jewish state’s success in fending off a thousand e-attacks per minute
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