Iran´s main nuclear powerplant ‘Bushehr’ targeted by the ‘Stuxnet’ computer worm – 24 Sept. 2010

CNN reports 24 Sept. 2010. A piece of highly sophisticated malicious software that has infected an unknown number of power plants, pipelines and factories over the past year is the first program designed to cause serious damage in the physical world, security experts are warning. At a closed-door conference this week in Maryland, Ralph Langner, a German industrial controls safety expert, said Stuxnet might be targeting not a sector but perhaps only one plant, and he speculated that it could be a controversial nuclear facility in Iran. According to Symantec, which has been investigating the virus and plans to publish details of the rogue commands on Wednesday, Iran has had far more infections than any other country. Source/read more: edition.cnn.com

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