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November 22, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/world/middleeast/20stuxnet.html

Worm Can Deal Double Blow to Iran's Nuclear Program

(New York Times) John Markoff - German software engineer Ralph Langner, who in September was the first to report that the Stuxnet computer worm was apparently designed to sabotage targets in Iran, said Friday that the program contained two separate "digital warheads," designed to disable both Iranian centrifuges used to enrich uranium and steam turbines at the Bushehr nuclear power plant. He described two different attack modules that are designed to run on different industrial controllers made by Siemens. "It appears that warhead one and warhead two were deployed in combination as an all-out cyberstrike against the Iranian nuclear program," he wrote.

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