Security News > 2011 > January > Iran's nuclear program and a new era of cyber war

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-cyber-war-20110117,0,2232905.story By Ken Dilanian Los Angeles Times January 17, 2011 Just a few months ago, U.S. and Israeli officials were warning that Iran was a year away from having the capability to rapidly build a nuclear weapon. Speculation was intensifying that Israel would launch airstrikes to prevent that from happening. But as the new year dawned, Western officials, with little fanfare, significantly revamped their estimates of Iran's nuclear progress. Israel's strategic affairs minister, Moshe Yaalon, said Dec. 29 that the Islamic Republic was at least three years away from a bomb. This month, the retiring head of Israel's intelligence service, Meir Dagan, went further, saying Iran wouldn't be able to develop a nuclear warhead before 2015 at the earliest. A few days later, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also downplayed Tehran's progress, saying, "Their program, from our best estimate, has been slowed down" because of "technological problems." People who study computer warfare for a living have no doubt about what's behind these reappraisals: Stuxnet, a game-changing computer worm that may herald a new era of shadowy digital combat. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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