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  • Strategy highlighted the "stuxnet" computer worm, which has appeared on the computer system of the Iranian nuclear programme, as an example of the damage such attacks can cause.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • If Israel and the US can create stuxnet, they can reverse engineer a few rockets, as could China or anyone else.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The most spectacular antagonists are the hactivists like Anonymous and LulzSec; the most dangerous are the criminal gangs like ZeuS; and the most sophisticated actors are the nation states that were behind the stuxnet worm that infect Iran nuclear power plants in 2010.

    Forbes.com: News Kenneth Rapoza 2012

  • The attacks are currently spreading mainly in a handful of countries, including Brazil and the United States stuxnet attacks

    gHacks Technology News 2010

  • Security Essentials offer protection against known attack forms as well. lnk stuxnet attacks

    gHacks Technology News 2010

  • The German's have a limited force in Afghanistan and their Siemen's industrial electric company was attacked by Israel's stuxnet worm/virus EVEN thou Germany recently custom built two stealth submarines for Israel using Israeli Spy's stolen US Navy ballistic submarine cruise missile blueprints.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • stuxnet didn't get in via the internet, it was via corrupt drives.

    Wired Top Stories David Kravets 2011

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