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Gary Samore: Plague On Windows 3.0 Users" by John Gantz

1) In 2010, Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz was targeted by the Stuxnet cyber worm, which destroyed over 1,000 nuclear centrifuges and set back Iran's nuclear program by at least two years. 2) The US was likely involved in the Stuxnet attack, as a White House official acknowledged working to complicate Iran's nuclear program through cyber means. 3) The US has also spied extensively on China through cyber operations, hacking mobile phone companies and research institutions to collect data and monitor communications.

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Gary Samore: Plague On Windows 3.0 Users" by John Gantz

1) In 2010, Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz was targeted by the Stuxnet cyber worm, which destroyed over 1,000 nuclear centrifuges and set back Iran's nuclear program by at least two years. 2) The US was likely involved in the Stuxnet attack, as a White House official acknowledged working to complicate Iran's nuclear program through cyber means. 3) The US has also spied extensively on China through cyber operations, hacking mobile phone companies and research institutions to collect data and monitor communications.

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IRAN

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]

According to classified documents provided by Edward Snowden, the National


Security Agency (NSA) has also infiltrated the servers in the headquarters of Huawei,
China's largest telecommunications company and the largest telecommunications
equipment maker in the world. The plan is to exploit Huawei's technology so that when
the company sold equipment to other countries—including both allies and nations that
avoid buying American products—the NSA could roam through their computer and
telephone networks to conduct surveillance and, if ordered by the president, offensive
cyberoperations.[11]

Other

 In 1982, a computer control system stolen from a Canadian company by Soviet


spies caused a Soviet gas pipeline to explode. It has been alleged that code for
the control system had been modified by the CIA to include a logic bomb which
changed the pump speeds to cause the explosion,[12][12][12][13] but this is disputed.[14]
[15]

 An 1 April 1991 article in InfoWorld Magazine "Meta-Virus Set to Unleash


Plague on Windows 3.0 Users" by John Gantz[16] was purported to be an
extremely early example of cyber warfare between 2 countries. In fact the
"AF/91 virus" was an April Fools Joke that was misunderstood and widely re-
reported as fact by credulous media.[17]

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