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File: An Iranian worker at the Uranium Conversion Facility at Isfahan, 410 kilometers south of Tehran, January 2014. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 5, 2018, 2:34 pm
Iran claims to thwart Stuxnet-style Israeli cyberattack
Information minister says a regime with ‘a record of using cyber weapons’ attempted to damage communication infrastructure but ‘returned empty-handed’
By TOI staff and AFP
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a joint press conference with his Turkish and Azeri counterparts (unseen) on October 30, 2018, in Istanbul. (Ozan Kose/AFP)
November 1, 2018, 12:05 am
Iran accuses Mossad of running ‘false flag’ ops to frame Tehran
Claim by foreign minister comes after Israeli officials reveal spy agency’s role in exposing alleged assassination plot on Iranian dissidents in Denmark
By TOI staff and AFP
In this Feb. 3, 2007 file photo, an Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
October 31, 2018, 9:59 pm
TV report: Israel silent as Iran hit by computer virus more violent than Stuxnet
Tehran strategic networks attacked, Hadashot TV says, hours after Israel revealed it tipped off Denmark about Iran murder plot, and days after Rouhani’s phone was found bugged
By TOI staff
An F-16I fighter jet of the Israeli Air Force's 253rd Squadron prepares to take off during an operation to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor on September 5, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 21, 2018, 5:15 pm
From Osirak to Iran scientists: Other nuclear-related attacks linked to Israel
Aside from destruction of Syrian and Iraqi reactors, covert assassinations and computer viruses have also been attributed to the Jewish state
By AFP
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab (Courtesy)
January 21, 2018, 1:34 pm
Netanyahu turns down meeting with Russian cybersecurity head linked to US hack
Citing schedule restraints, Prime Minister’s Office says premier ‘must decline’ Eugene Kaspersky’s request for sit-down at Davos World Economic Forum this week
By Raoul Wootliff
A view of the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab, Russia's leading antivirus software development company, in Moscow on October 25, 2017. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
October 25, 2017, 11:42 pm
Outed by Israel, Kaspersky confirms it took classified US information
Russian firm acknowledges its software picked up source code but says it was destroyed and never shown to anyone
By JTA
An employee of Kaspersky Lab works on computers at the company's headquarters in Moscow, Russia, July 1, 2017. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
October 11, 2017, 8:44 am
Israel said behind discovery of Russian cybersecurity hack into US intel
Kaspersky Lab software ordered wiped from government computers after Israeli agents hacked into system and found Kremlin’s footprints
By TOI staff
Costin Raiu, Director, Global Research & Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab during a visit to Jerusalem, June 14, 2017. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)
June 26, 2017, 3:26 pm
Virtual detectives prowl the web’s ‘dark forest’ for criminal tracks
By studying past cyber-attacks you learn how to fend off new ones, Kaspersky Lab’s chief researcher says
By Shoshanna Solomon
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
Retired Marine Gen. James Cartwright arrives at the US District Court in Washington, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
October 18, 2016, 3:01 am
US general guilty in Stuxnet false statements probe
Former vice chair of Joint Chiefs James Cartwright, 67, tried to hide involvement in 2012 news reports on alleged US-Israeli cyber attack on Iranian nuke program
By SAM HANANEL and Eric Tucker
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
Hard disk drive (Pixabay)
August 15, 2016, 2:01 pm
Hard drive noises could betray sensitive data, says BGU team
Malware to manipulate the clicks and clacks of disk drives is the latest example of how hackers could steal information from a computer, even one unconnected to the internet
By Dan Schwartz
Syrian opposition activists Bahr Abdul Razzak and his wife Noura Al-Ameer in Istanbul, August 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
August 2, 2016, 8:35 pm
Experts see Iranian role in bid to hack Syrian dissident
Evidence of cyber espionage against opposition activists raises possibility that Tehran has gone beyond tipping scale in Assad’s favor
By Raphael Satter
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
Hossein Jaberi Ansari, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, speaks during a weekly press conference, Tehran, Iran, December 14, 2015. (AFP/ATTA KENARE)
March 26, 2016, 10:52 am
Iran denies backing cyber attacks on US after indictments
NY court charges seven Iranians for allegedly infiltrating dozens of banks, financial institutions, and a dam
By AFP
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