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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel - NYTimes.com

Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel - NYTimes.com: "send Iran’s nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly out of control. Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart.

The attacks were not fully successful: Some parts of Iran’s operations ground to a halt, while others survived, according to the reports of international nuclear inspectors."

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