Monday, April 25, 2011

Stuxnet called cyber warfare's 'Little Boy'

"Have Little Boy and Fat Man, the nuclear devices dropped on Japan to end World War II in Asia and the Pacific, been replaced by Stuxnet? The question is raised in a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
Analysts who have viewed the Stuxnet virus, which sabotaged the Iranian nuclear centrifuges, call its use a watershed moment in cyber warfare, because it was the first instance of a specially designed cyber weapon used to attack the industrial infrastructure of a sovereign nation.
The success of the attack has demonstrated that cyber attacks can be not only successful but devastating..."http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=290221

Little Boy and Fat Man

No comments:

Post a Comment