Gary Samore: Plague On Windows 3.0 Users" by John Gantz
Gary Samore: Plague On Windows 3.0 Users" by John Gantz
In June 2010, Iran was the victim of a cyber attack when its nuclear facility in Natanz
was infiltrated by the cyber-worm ‘Stuxnet’, said to be the most advanced piece of
malware ever discovered and significantly increases the profile of cyberwarfare.[6][7] It
destroyed perhaps over 1000 nuclear centrifuges and, according to a Business Insider
article, "[set] Tehran's atomic program back by at least two years."[8]
Despite a lack of official confirmation, Gary Samore, White House Coordinator for
Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, made a public statement, in which he
said, "we're glad they [the Iranians] are having trouble with their centrifuge machine
and that we—the US and its allies—are doing everything we can to make sure that we
complicate matters for them", offering "winking acknowledgement" of US
involvement in Stuxnet.[9]
China
In 2013, Edward Snowden, a former systems administrator for the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) and a counterintelligence trainer at the Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA), revealed that the United States government had hacked into Chinese mobile
phone companies to collect text messages and had spied on Tsinghua University, one
of China's biggest research institutions, as well as home to one of China's six major
backbone networks, the China Education and Research Network (CERNET), from
where internet data from millions of Chinese citizens could be mined. He said U.S. spy
agencies has been watching China and Hong Kong for years.[10]
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