'Stuxnet virus set back Iran’s nuclear program by 2 years'

[BlueStateSaint]

Whoever wrote this one (virus)--probably someone on the payroll of the IDF--is a genius.

'Stuxnet virus set back Iran’s nuclear program by 2 years'



By YAAKOV KATZ  
12/15/2010 05:15


Top German computer consultant tells 'Post' virus was as effective as military strike, a huge success; expert speculates IDF creator of virus.

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The Stuxnet virus, which has attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities and which Israel is suspected of creating, has set back the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program by two years, a top German computer consultant who was one of the first experts to analyze the program’s code told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

“It will take two years for Iran to get back on track,” Langer said in a telephone interview from his office in Hamburg, Germany. “This was nearly as effective as a military strike, but even better since there are no fatalities and no full-blown war. From a military perspective, this was a huge success.”

Langer spoke to the Post amid news reports that the virus was still infecting Iran’s computer systems at its main uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and its reactor at Bushehr.

Last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, said that Iran had suspended work at its nuclear-field production facilities, likely a result of the Stuxnet virus.

According to Langer, Iran’s best move would be to throw out all of the computers that have been infected by the worm, which he said was the most “advanced and aggressive malware in history.” But, he said, even once all of the computers were thrown out, Iran would have to ensure that computers used by outside contractors were also clean of Stuxnet.



Yup--Stuxnet is the gift that keeps on giving!

The rest of the article is here:

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=199475

[cavegal]

 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Infowars propaganda.  Not necessarily incorrect, but not to be taken at face value either.

[Godot showed up]

Infowars propaganda.  Not necessarily incorrect, but not to be taken at face value either.

That was my first thought. No--to be honest, my first thought was that 2 years sounded like an extreme exaggeration. With all the guts of the program still intact? Centrifuges and reactors just fine? Replacing computers, if they have to go that far, isn't going to set them back 2 years.

[Mr Mannn]

Two years is about right. Obama won't attack, but President Palin will!

[true_blood]

Good.

[Boudicca]

Two years is about right. Obama won't attack, but President Palin will!

I'm thinking any 90-year old great granny in Israel would have enough guts to order the attack.  Unlike Imam Obama.  
Congress would likewise roll over, unless you threatened their supply of pork.  Rush was detailing some of it in the new bill on his radio show today.  99% of pork generated from the Dummieshits.

[Lacarnut]

Two years is about right. Obama won't attack, but President Palin will!

H5

[ndh777]

 

Any other appropriate emoticons?? I have always hated viruses and their creators since the beginning of time, but this one brightened up my day :D

[DumbAss Tanker]

That was my first thought. No--to be honest, my first thought was that 2 years sounded like an extreme exaggeration. With all the guts of the program still intact? Centrifuges and reactors just fine? Replacing computers, if they have to go that far, isn't going to set them back 2 years.

Yes, exactly.

[DefiantSix]

Update:  This time from the NY Slimes, so it has a little more credibility.

Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay
By WILLIAM J. BROAD, JOHN MARKOFF and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: January 15, 2011

<snip>
...Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new, equally secret role — as a critical testing ground in a joint American and Israeli effort to undermine Iran’s efforts to make a bomb of its own.

Behind Dimona’s barbed wire, the experts say, Israel has spun nuclear centrifuges virtually identical to Iran’s at Natanz, where Iranian scientists are struggling to enrich uranium. They say Dimona tested the effectiveness of the Stuxnet computer worm, a destructive program that appears to have wiped out roughly a fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges and helped delay, though not destroy, Tehran’s ability to make its first nuclear arms.

“To check out the worm, you have to know the machines,” said an American expert on nuclear intelligence. “The reason the worm has been effective is that the Israelis tried it out.”

<snip>

The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly out of control. Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart.

The attacks were not fully successful: Some parts of Iran’s operations ground to a halt, while others survived, according to the reports of international nuclear inspectors. Nor is it clear the attacks are over: Some experts who have examined the code believe it contains the seeds for yet more versions and assaults.

Score one for the good guys!

[Revolution]

YES! Let the attacks keep raining down upon those scum!

  Achhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmadinijad is gonna be pissed.