As Russian President Vladimir Putin continues his invasion of neighboring Ukraine, his government announced earlier this week that the country will be disconnecting from the global internet in order to defend against external cyberattacks. But that decision has led others to believe he may be planning on launching his own against Western nations including the U.S. “Russia will completely disconnect... 

Responding to the massive global cyberattack that used stolen NSA spying tools and affected some 200,000 Windows servers in more than 200 organizations, including large medical networks, a senior Israeli Defense Force (IDF) official suggested that hacking is more dangerous than missile attacks. Although the IDF military network was not thought to have been affected, a widespread cyberattack using... 

An exterior view of the Sony Pictures building in Culver City, California. North Korea has proposed a joint investigation with the United States into the recent hacking of American Sony Pictures to prove that Pyongyang had nothing to do with the cyberattack. An unnamed North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement on Saturday that Pyongyang can prove it is not responsible for the hacking,... 

A map is displayed on one of the screens at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, in July. US national security planners are proposing that the 21st century's critical infrastructure – power grids, communications, water utilities, financial networks – be similarly shielded from cyber marauders and other foes. The...