Friday, January 28, 2011

‘Anti-Iran virus Stuxnet may be replicated’

  • Hackers have been trying to replicate Stuxnet, a computer virus tailor-made to knock out Iranian uranium processing machines, according to a German Minister.
  • German hacking enthusiasts drew world attention last year to Stuxnet, a sabotage program targeting industrial plants managed by Siemens software.
  • Last week, the New York Times reported that Stuxnet had been fine-tuned in an Israeli nuclear plant before it was unleashed against Iran's centrifuge plants, adding to suspicions that Western intelligence services may have devised the virus as a cyber-warfare weapon.

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