The destructive ‘Shamoon’ malware attacks that hit the Saudi Arabian Aramco oil company last month could have been aided by …
International law on cyber attacks examined in new manual
A cyber security think tank has published a manual studying how international law applies to conflicts in cyberspace, where the …
Future warfare could be online, experts say
Future warfare could be fought by soldiers using bullets and bombs as well as people hunched over laptops according to …
IT's 9 biggest security threats
Years ago the typical hacking scenario involved a lone attacker and maybe some buddies working late at night on Mountain …
'Gauss' cyberweapon targets Middle Eastern banks
An apparently state-sponsored cyberweapon dubbed ‘Guass’ has been unveiled which is targeting banks and individuals in a number of Middle …
Gov surveillance malware monitors Middle East accounts
A sophisticated cyber surveillance tool that monitors financial transactions with Middle Eastern banks was ‘probably’ built by or …
Iran to act on cyberattacks with secure intranet
Iran is pressing ahead with its promise to establish a “national information network” that could unhitch some of the …
DWTC to organise region’s largest cyber security conference in 2013
As corporates and individuals in the Middle East continue to witness a steady rise in cyber attacks, industry experts believe …
Google warns users of 'state-sponsored' hacks
Google began warning users today of its Gmail online email services when it suspects they may be targets of “state-sponsored” …
Obama ordered cyber attacks on Iran: report
U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the Stuxnet cyber attacks on Iran in an effort to slow the country’s development of …
Middle East engulfed by 'Flame'
A new, highly sophisticated malware threat that was predominantly used in cyberespionage attacks against targets in the Middle East has …
Windows Vista infection rates climb, says Microsoft
A skew toward more exploits on Windows Vista can be attributed to the demise of support for the operating system’s …
Achilles’ heel
We’d recently organised a roundtable discussion on the very esoteric topic of SCADA with regional security experts help AG, which …
Siemens SCADA hacking talk pulled over security concerns
A planned presentation on security vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems was pulled Wednesday over worries that the information in …
Critical infrastructure ‘unprepared’ for cyberattacks
There has been a “dramatic” increase in cyberattacks on critical infrastructure but organisations remain unprepared, according to McAfee research. The …
Obama seeks big boost in cybersecurity spending
The White House is proposing a big increase in cybersecurity research and development in next year’s budget to improve, in …
Anatomy of protection
Everything revolves around information and people. That was the core message of the Symantec Vision held in Barcelona last month, …