Is this the future of cyberwarfare?

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http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2015/2/5/blackenergy-malware-cyberwarfare.html

By Aaron Ernst
Al Jazeera America
February 5, 2015

Five years ago, the most sophisticated cyber weapon the world had ever 
seen ravaged Iran's nuclear program. Allegedly developed by the U.S. and 
Israel, the complex virus infected the computer system that ran the 
centrifuges. Slight tweaks to the software caused hundreds of the 
centrifuges to self-destruct, setting the program back years. The malware 
was dubbed Stuxnet.

Traditionally, foreign governments have used malware to spy and steal. But 
this was something entirely different.

“Stuxnet, it is a weapon, it’s not 'like' a weapon,” says German computer 
security expert Ralph Langner, who was the first to identify how the virus 
worked. “It is a weapon because it was designed to cause physical damage.”

Now, Langner worries that Stuxnet could come back to haunt the U.S. Those 
same vulnerabilities in Iran's nuclear control systems that the malware 
exploited can be found in similar systems throughout America.

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