Stuxnet worm causes worldwide alarm

 
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Old 09-24-2010
Stuxnet worm causes worldwide alarm

by Joseph Menn and Mary Watkins, Financial Times Online No one knows the ultimate goal of the Stuxnet computer worm, which has infected an unknown number of industrial controls worldwide and can stealthily give false instructions to machinery and false readings to operators.* It could destroy gas pipelines, cause a nuclear plant to malfunction, or [...]

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