Michael Joseph Gross raises some fascinating, and disturbing, questions in Silent War, in the July issue ofVanity Fair. Apparently drawing on extensive contacts in the rarified world of extremely talented hackers, and finding some corroboration from government and ex-government types, Gross recounts a consumer attack on ARAMCO that did a full wipe ...

WASHINGTON The United States, concerned that Iran is behind a string of cyberattacks against U.S. banking sites, has considered delivering a formal warning through diplomatic channels but has not pursued the idea out of fear that doing so could escalate hostilities, U.S. officials said. Internal discussion reflects the complex nature of deciding ...

Major U.S. banks are pressing for government action to block or squelch what Washington officials say is an intensifying Iranian campaign of cyberattacks against American financial institutions. Financial firms have spent millions of dollars responding to the attacks, according to bank officials, who add that they can't be expected to fend off attacks ...

Irannews headlines on Friday include US Iranian sending medicine to Iran to avert country drug shortage; Ahmadinejad invitation to OIC summit in Cairo; Netanyahu remarks over Iran being top priority in his next term; Internet disconnection in Iran due toloss of Iran-Goergia bandwidth connection; IAEA chief speech on not being optimisticof Iran nuke ...

Iranrejected mediareports that it is behind a wave of online attacks against U.S. banks, saying it disapproves of offensives against financial bodies. Iran respects international law and refrains from targeting other nations economic or financial institutions, Irans mission to the United Nations said in a statement issued yesterday, according to a ...

SAN FRANCISCO The attackers hit one American bank after the next. As in so many previous attacks, dozens of online banking sites slowed, hiccupped or ground to a halt before recovering several minutes later. But there was something disturbingly different about the wave of online attacks on American banks in recent weeks. Security researchers say ...