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Huge threats still targeting power grids
18.10.2011
One year ago, the Stuxnet virus had just been discovered.
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Iran claims to have been targeted by second worm
26.04.2011
If a statement from Gholam-Reza Jalali - the head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization - is to be believed, it seems that Iran's computers have been targeted by a new computer worm dubbed "Stars".
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U.S. federal lab linked to Stuxnet breached
20.04.2011
A federally funded U.S. lab that is suspected to have been involved in finding the vulnerabilities in Siemens SCADA systems used by the Stuxnet worm has shut down the Internet connection for its employees following the discovery of a breach into the facility's systems.
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Dramatic increase in cyberattacks on critical infrastructure
20.04.2011
A survey of 200 IT security executives from critical electricity infrastructure enterprises in 14 countries found that 40 percent of executives believed that their industry’s vulnerability had increased.
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Israeli general claims Stuxnet attacks as one of his successes
15.02.2011
The latest results of a Symantec study concentrating on the Stuxnet worm revealed that its developers knew what they were doing - once finished, it took only 12 hours to infect the first target.
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