The New York Times: 11/17/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — A malicious computer attack that appears to target Iran's nuclear plants can be modified to wreak havoc on industrial control systems around the world, affecting the production of everything from chemicals to baby formula, government officials and cyberexperts warned Wednesday.
Experts told senators that attackers can use information made public about the so-called Stuxnet virus to develop variations targeting other industries, and that the worm's consequences go "beyond any threat we have seen."
Stuxnet
The New York Times: 9/30/2010
The Stuxnet worm is a fast-spreading malicious computer program that has turned up in industrial programs around the world. Its most striking aspect may not have been how sophisticated it was, but rather how sloppy its creators were in letting a specifically aimed attack scatter randomly around the globe. Iran said it had appeared in the computers of workers in its nuclear project.
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