Focus On Cybersecurity

Learn about efforts to use new technologies to protect digital devices such as smartphones, computers and industrial controllers against a growing threat posed by worms and other malware

Smartphone Apps Go (Truly) Viral

The devices are becoming bigger targets for malware creators
Slide Show: What Your Identity Is Worth Online

The cost of buying stolen information—credit card numbers, e-mail accounts, even bank balances—is surprisingly low
Safeguarding F-15s, And Your Credit Card

Government contractors look at securing commercial networks
How Bad Guys Worm Their Way Into Factories

The Stuxnet worm highlights the vulnerability of computers that control factories, many of which were developed before the Internet era
Slide Show: Cyber Crime and Information Warfare

The Internet has been under attack from hackers, cyber warriors, and thrill-seekers as long as it has been around

The Internet Skeptic

Evgeny Morozov discusses cybersecurity and how software meant to help Iranian political dissidents put them at risk
Cisco's Security Chief on Cyber Attacks

Chief Security Officer John N. Stewart talks about threats from the Stuxnet computer worm, USB drives, and cloud computing
Investors Try to Decipher E-Security Firm Kratos

How can analysts value a top secret cyberdefense contractor when its chief executive is forbidden to talk about its biggest government deals?
Speed Dial: Richard Clarke

The chief counterterrorism adviser to the Clinton and Bush Administrations says the U.S. isn't ready to defend itself against a significant attack on its digital infrastructure