Stuxnet-Like Virus Targets Middle East Banks

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 10, 2012 Digital security experts have discovered a new cyber-surveillance virus in the Middle East that can steal login and password information and spy on banking transactions, system configurations and other data. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chick-fil-A May Be Cooked

Staff / Truthdig Aug 6, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The editor in chief of The Advocate talks chicken and bigotry, the tea party wins big in Texas, cybersecurity from the inbox to the nuclear power plant, race and politics, and we remember Gore Vidal. Dig deeper

Chick-fil-A May Be Cooked

Staff / Truthdig Aug 6, 2012 Last time on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The editor in chief of The Advocate talks chicken and bigotry, the tea party wins big in Texas, cybersecurity from the inbox to the nuclear power plant, race and politics, and we remember Gore Vidalcom/avbooth/category/truthdig_radio/" title="Truthdig Radio">Truthdig Radio: Chicken and bigotry, the tea party wins big in Texas, cybersecurity from the inbox to the nuclear power plant, race and politics, and we remember Gore Vidal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hackers for the American Elite

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 10, 2012 The U.S. government should court the best computer hackers worldwide rather than seek to punish them, a leading military thinker and former adviser to Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

American Cyberwar on Iran

Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, The International Herald Tribune Jun 10, 2012 Dig deeper

Hack Us and We’ll Bomb You

Staff / Truthdig Jun 1, 2011 The Pentagon has decided to treat Internet-borne attacks on the United States as acts of war. The change is motivated in part by a brewing leet arms race with China and Russia. Essentially the U.S. is playing catch-up in what someone from the 1990s would call "cyberspace" and the military is buying time by creating, it hopes, a deterrent. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.S. Joins the Digital Arms Race

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2009 Jealous of Russia and China's hacking prowess, the Pentagon is trying to beef up its cyberwarfare capabilities by developing a gadget that would enable a run-of-the-mill soldier to hop on your wireless network, take over a power plant and everything between. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )