Round up the usual suspects, lol.
Posted on 10/02/2010 2:21:28 PM PDT by OldCorps
Iran has arrested "nuclear spies" on suspicion of being behind cyber attacks on its nuclear programme, Iranian state media report.
Press TV says "a number" of people have been apprehended as part of an operation by Iran to counter "massive enemy schemes". The report comes after the complex worm Stuxnet infected staff computers at Iran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr. No details of the arrests were given.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi was cited by Press TV as saying his ministry was capable of countering any threats. "We are always facing destructive activities by these [espionage] services, and, of course, we have arrested a number of nuclear spies to block the enemy's destructive moves," Mr Moslehi said. But he did not say how many people were detained, or specify whether the cyber attack referred to the Stuxnet virus.
While the worm also affected computers India, Indonesia and the US, it has spread the most in Iran. Reports suggest that the Stuxnet virus mutated in Iran and infected 30,000 computers. It is believed to be the first worm designed to target major infrastructure facilities.
Iran's Russian-built Bushehr plant will start generating power in January, two months later than planned, but officials have said the delay was not due to the virus. Some experts have said the virus was designed to target Tehran's nuclear programme, with some saying the complexity could only have been created by a state. Iran has been subject to four rounds of UN sanctions because of its uranium enrichment programme, which is separate from Bushehr.
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Iran devours itself.
Iran devours itself.
Round up the usual suspects, lol.
Beat me to it. My thoughts exactly.
What was it Adm Greer said in Hunt for Red October?
We planted a totally false rumor that Polish engineers had sabotaged the Red October at the shipyard, and Greer observed grimly that they would tear the whole shipyard apart trying to find them, and they’d succeed...
So, what we are suggesting here...is Larry Muhammad and Marvin Muhammad who were the IT guys at the nuke plant...and probably were lowly paid guys like most IT department have, and they both had 33k songs on some supped-up external hard-drive, which they just happened to buy from some guy in Bahrain when they went over for a beer-holiday last year. Thus, it all makes sense in how the virus arrived...via the evil collection of songs picked up. Just my humble guess.
Google could become a modern analog of the GM tank production during WW2. I just don’t know if they are actually on our side or not.
I work for a gubmint agency; its pretty well known around here that Mossad has someone very close to Ahmadinejad who is not even Jewish.
I work for a gubmint agency; its pretty well known around here that Mossad has someone very close to Ahmadinejad who is not even Jewish.
I work for a gubmint agency; its pretty well known around here that Mossad has someone very close to Ahmadinejad who is not even Jewish.
Quite.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of guys.
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