"As computers organise and dominate more and more of our world, five distinct threats are emerging, says Eugene Kaspersky, founder and chief executive of Russian computer security firm Kaspersky Lab and speaker at this year's Counter Terror Expo in London."

‘Bullet time’ to stop cyber attacks on power grids (by @paulmarks12) #infosec #stuxnet

The story Richard Clarke spins has all the suspense of a postmodern geopolitical thriller. The tale involves a ghostly cyberworm created to attack the nuclear centrifuges of a rogue nation—which then escapes from the target country, replicating itself in thousands of computers throughout the world. It may be lurking in yours right now. Harmlessly inactive...or awaiting further orders.

Iran has been forced to disconnect key oil facilities after suffering a malware attack on Sunday, say reports.

Oil production had not been affected by the attack, said the Mehr news agency.

The terminal on Kharg Island handles about 90% of Iran's oil exports.

The Iranian government has concocted the batshit crazy idea of censoring the Internet by creating their own Iran-only version. This so-called Intranet would be carefully vetted to only include sites deemed appropriate by the Iranian government. This was inspired in part by the news reporting in the wake of the Stuxnet virus, which was a massively embarrassing event for the Iranian government.

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The Stuxnet computer worm used to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program was planted by a double agent working for Israel. The agent used a booby-trapped memory stick to infect machines deep inside the Natanz nuclear facility, according to a report published on Wednesday.

Once the memory stick was infected, Stuxnet was able to infiltrate the Natanz network when a user did nothing more than click on an icon in Windows, ISSSource reported . They cited former and serving US intelligence officials who requested anonymity because of their proximity to the investigations. Covert operators from Israel and the US wanted to use a saboteur on the ground to spread the infection to insure the worm burrowed into the most vulnerable machines in the system, reporter Richard Sale added.

The double agent was probably a member of an Iranian dissident group, possibly from the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq group. This group is believed to be behind the assassinations of key Iranian nuclear scientists. In October, a huge blast destroyed an underground site near the town of Khorramabad in western Iran that housed most of Iran’s Shehab-3 medium-range missiles capable of reaching Israel and Iraq. Former and current US officials told ISSSource that the MEK was behind the attack, and one of the officials said “computer manipulations” caused the blast. “Given the seriousness of the impact on Iran’s (nuclear) program, we believe it took a human agent to spread the virus,” the source told the publication.

Shadowy sources claim double agent brought worm into Iranian nuclear power plants