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Stuxnet computer worm ushers in new threat to nuclear installations

STUXNET: WORLD’S FIRST CYBER WEAPON, Big Think   July 12, 2011 .When the Stuxnet computer virus infected Iran’s nuclear power facilities at the Natanz enrichment plant, it became the world’s first cyber weapon…..”Stuxnet required an enormous amount of resources to produce, but its cost-benefit ratio is still in question. While it may have helped set Iran’s program back to a degree, it also altered the landscape of cyberattacks. Stuxnet’s authors mapped a new frontier that other attackers are bound to follow; and the next target for sabotage could easily be a nuclear facility in the United States. No one knows what Stuxnet might have achieved had it never been discovered by VirusBlockAda a year ago. … It appeared the attackers were still developing the code when it was uncovered.”..http://bigthink.com/ideas/39255

July 12, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, technology