The Federal Trade Commission appointed Princeton University professor Edward Felton as its first chief technologist. The enforcement agency, which oversees antitrust issues and the protection of consumers from fraud and deceit, has taken on several high …
Read more
A sophisticated worm designed to infiltrate industrial control systems could be used as a blueprint to sabotage machines that are critical to U.S. power plants, electrical grids and other infrastructure, experts are warning. The discovery of Stuxnet which …
Read more
hundreds of Iranian Web sites have also been under attack. Tehran-based engineers specializing in repairing personal computers said they had not noticed any upsurge in demands of repairs because of the virus. Computers are widely used in Iranian society,
Read more
… week’s Twitter attack that caused a widespread headache for the micro-blogging service appears to have been triggered by a Japanese computer … spurred others like Australian teenager Pearce Delphin of …
Read more