After Iran strike, Israel gets cyber unit – United Press International

This stems from the ground-breaking use of the highly sophisticated Stuxnet computer virus against Iran, a strike widely attributed to Israel. The attack was detected in the Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, 160 miles south of …


Symantec closes purchase of VeriSign unit – AP – msnbc.com

Computer security company Symantec Corp. has closed its $1.28 billion acquisition of a unit of VeriSign Inc. that sells security technology to websites, the companies said on Monday. The deal was first announced on May …


Hacking : Script Kiddie, Hacktivism, Climatic Research Unit Documents, Climatic Research Unit Hacking Incident

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Troops return from changing mission in Iraq – Pocono Record

EDITOR’S NOTE — Since January, AP correspondent Hamza Hendawi has embedded at regular intervals with a U.S. infantry company in Baghdad to gauge how the military mission in Iraq is changing. Here, Hendawi accompanies the unit on its journey back to …