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Cyber-threat to Infastructure is real...
September 27th, 2010 From AP
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Iran's official news agency said today that a sophisticated
computer worm purportedly designed to disrupt power grids and other such
industrial facilities had infected computers at the country's first
nuclear-power plant but had not caused any serious damage.
The Stuxnet worm, which some see as heralding a new era of cyberwarfare,
appeared in July and was already known to be widespread in Iran. In fact,
its high concentration there, along with a delay in the opening of the
Bushehr plant, led one security researcher to hypothesize that Stuxnet was
created to sabotage Iran's nuclear industry.
In addition to emphasizing the threat posed by the worm, ... today's news could
well add to speculation about Stuxnet, the sophistication of which has
caused some to suspect that a nation state, ...
might be behind its creation.
The worm exploits three holes in Windows, one of which has been
patched...
Mahmoud Jafari, the project manager at the Bushehr plant, said the worm
"has not caused any damage to major systems of the plant" ... according to Iran's IRNA
news agency, which was cited in a report by the Associated Press.
Jafari said the infection... would not affect plans to open the
nuclear plant in October, the AP reported.