Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Cyber terrorism is cute when perpetrated by Israel--says the US

"Questions have been raised about the involvement of US government researchers in the creation of a digital weapon that experts believe may have sabotaged centrifuges at a uranium-enrichment plant in Iran.  Researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory, which is owned by the US Department of Energy, may have passed critical information to Israel about vulnerabilities in a system that controls Iran’s enrichment plant at Natanz. That information was then used to create and test the so-called Stuxnet worm that was unleashed in a joint cyber attack on Natanz, according to the New York Times." (thanks Ali)