Experts Say Iran Has 'Neutralized' Stuxnet Virus

[Purveyor]

By Mark Hosenball

Feb 14 (Reuters) - Iranian engineers have succeeded in neutralizing and purging the computer virus known as Stuxnet from their country's nuclear machinery, European and U.S. officials and private experts have told Reuters.

The malicious code, whose precise origin and authorship remain unconfirmed, made its way as early as 2009 into equipment controlling centrifuges Iran is using to enrich uranium, dealing a significant but perhaps temporary setback to Iran's suspected nuclear weapons work.

Many experts believe that Israel, possibly with assistance from the United States, was responsible for creating and deploying Stuxnet. But no authoritative account of who invented Stuxnet or how it got into Iran's centrifuge control equipment has surfaced.

U.S. and European officials, who insisted on anonymity when discussing a highly sensitive subject, said their governments' experts agreed that the Iranians had succeeded in disabling Stuxnet and getting it out of their machinery.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/14/iran-usa-stuxnet-idUSL2E8DE9NL20120214

[Former_DU_Member]

1. What would our response be if Iran or any other country effed up our

nuclear shit on purpose?? I think the drones would be criss crossing the skies over whoever did it. Hell, drones, battleships and bombers would be unleashed. Then again, Iran is threatening us so it all makes sense.

[Muskypundit]

2. China hacks our governments computers daily.

Not quite the same thing, but close. We don't even say a word.

[Former_DU_Member]

3. Yeah but the Chinese leadership hasn't admitted responsibility... wouldn't hacking

our infrastructure and so forth be considered an act of terrorism? Does China have oil? Didn't think so.

[joeybee12]

4. "Many experts believe that Israel, possibly with assistance from the United States, was responsible

for creating and deploying Stuxnet."

Ya think?