Sunday, June 3, 2012

The Cyber War Against Iran -- News Roundup

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Obama Ordered Cyber-Attacks On Iran's Nuclear Programme But Created A Super-Virus That Is Now 'Out Of Control' -- Daily Mail

* Details of U.S. presidents backing for high tech attacks on Iran confirmed by security team source
* The 2010 Stuxnet virus was developed with the Israeli government to set back Iranian nuclear research
* The attacks appear to be continuing with Iran highlighting new computer viruses

Barack Obama secretly stepped up a viral war on Iran’s nuclear programme by creating a virus that has now escaped into the rest of the internet.

Obama accelerated the attacks which began under the previous Bush administration and were code-named Olympic Games.

One of the computer viruses, Stuxnet, accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 after getting out of Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant.

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Report: Obama Ordered Stuxnet to Continue After Bug Caused It to Spread Wildly -- Threat Level
Report: Obama, Israel Behind Stuxnet Worm and Accelerated Iran Cyberattacks -- Time
Report: Obama pushed for cyberattacks -- UPI
Massive cyber attack on Iran came from U.S., report says -- Boston Herald/L.A. Times
Obama Administration Admits Cyberattacks Against Iran Are Part Of Joint US-Israeli Offensive -- Business Insider
Obama Ordered To Speed Up Cyberattacks On Iran's Nuclear Facilities -- IBTimes
US was 'key player in cyber-attacks on Iran's nuclear programme' -- Today Online
US was 'key player in cyber-attacks on Iran's nuclear programme' -- The Guardian
Author Claims Obama Ordered Stuxnet Attacks -- Red Orbit
Obama administration admits the USA was behind Stuxnet -- Tech Eye
Cyber-attacks 'bought us time' on Iran: U.S. sources -- Reuters
Sophisticated cyber-battles raise fears of cyber-blowback -- MSNBC
McCain slams White House over cyber leaks -- AFP
Super-spy virus, Flame, has 650,000 lines of code -- SFGate/Bloomberg
In his secret war against Iran, Obama sends in the geeks -- Matt Gurney, National Post
How Obama Was Dangerously Naive About STUXNET and Cyberwarfare -- Christopher Mims, Technology Review
Stuxnet, Flame and fulfilling the dream of Sun Tzu -- Dominic Basulto, Washington Post
Cyber Threat Projection and the Insider Threat: Stuxnet Edition -- Forbes
Stuxnet: U.S. Can Launch Cyberattacks But Not Defend Against Them, Experts Say -- Gerry Smith, Huffington Post
Obama ordered Stuxnet cyberattack, reports say. Did it leave US vulnerable? -- Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor
What Stuxnet's Exposure As An American Weapon Means For Cyberwar -- Andy Greenberg, Forbes
Stuxnet admission likely to have foreign policy consequences -- Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica

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