InfoWorld - Security Adviser: Stuxnet marks the start of the next security arms race

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More damaging to Iran's nuclear facilities than bombs, Stuxnet worm demonstrates cyber warfare is next big threat

By Roger A. Grimes
January 25, 2011

More information about Stuxnet continues to dribble out, and each new fact and rumor never fails to astound me. As covered by InfoWorld's Robert Lemos, the New York Times reported that a U.S.-Israeli team accessed inside information in creating Stuxnet to wreak havoc on Iran.

Most of the report was anonymously sourced, so it's impossible to tell how much of it's true. Still, the tone doesn't seem overly speculative -- and suggests Stuxnet is a revealing study in the future of cyber warfare, with potentially greater damaging force than a heavy bomb attack.

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