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Monday, September 27, 2010

Iran Says it's Fighting Stuxnet

In what would seem to be confirmation of those stories suggesting that the Stuxnet worm is a bit of cyber-warfare aimed at targeting Iran's nuclear industry, with Iranian reports saying that the Atomic Energy Organization has met to devise defenses against Stuxnet (also here). While the Iranian reports suggest no major harm has been suffered, the BBC version does say that staff computers at Bushehr (but not the plant's operating system) have been infected.

All this tends to lend credibility to the claims Iran was specifically targeted (though if it's a psyop instead of cyberwar, that could just mean that it's working). Though all very spy-thrillerish, just because Iran is paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't after them.

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