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Obama ordered Stuxnet cyber attack on Iran: Report
The New York Times has revealed that US President Barack Obama
secretly ordered the Stuxnet cyber attack on Iran.
press tv
Fri Jun 1, 2012 5:16PM GMT
A US daily has revealed that President Barack Obama secretly ordered a
cyber attack with the Stuxnet computer virus against Iran to sabotage
the country's nuclear energy program.
`From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered
increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run
Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding
America's first sustained use of cyber weapons,' The New York Times
quoted `participants in the program' as saying on Friday.
The report added that the offensive was part of a wave of digital
attacks codenamed `Olympic Games.'
`Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks - begun in the Bush
administration and code-named Olympic Games - even after an element of
the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because
of a programming error,' the report added.
The US daily also confirmed that the Stuxnet virus was created with
the help of a secret Israeli intelligence unit.
Stuxnet, first indentified by the Iranian officials in June 2010, is a
malware designed to infect computers using a control system favored by
industries that manage water supplies, oil rigs, and power plants.
In July 2010, media reports claimed that Stuxnet had targeted
industrial computers around the globe, with Iran being the main target
of the attack. They said the country's Bushehr nuclear power plant was
at the center of the cyber attack.
However, Iranian experts detected the virus in time, averting any
damage to the country's industrial sites and resources.
On Wednesday, Head of the Information Technology Organization of Iran
Ali Hakim Javadi said the country's experts have managed to produce
antivirus software that can spot and remove the newly detected
computer virus Flame, which experts say is 20 times more powerful than
the Stuxnet virus.
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon strongly hinted Tuesday
that Tel Aviv was involved in creating the computer virus to sabotage
Iran's nuclear energy activities.
Ya'alon expressed support for the creation of the virus and similar
tools, arguing that it was "reasonable" for anyone who sees Iran as a
threat to take such steps.
The New York Times has revealed that US President Barack Obama
secretly ordered the Stuxnet cyber attack on Iran.
press tv
Fri Jun 1, 2012 5:16PM GMT
A US daily has revealed that President Barack Obama secretly ordered a
cyber attack with the Stuxnet computer virus against Iran to sabotage
the country's nuclear energy program.
`From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered
increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run
Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding
America's first sustained use of cyber weapons,' The New York Times
quoted `participants in the program' as saying on Friday.
The report added that the offensive was part of a wave of digital
attacks codenamed `Olympic Games.'
`Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks - begun in the Bush
administration and code-named Olympic Games - even after an element of
the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because
of a programming error,' the report added.
The US daily also confirmed that the Stuxnet virus was created with
the help of a secret Israeli intelligence unit.
Stuxnet, first indentified by the Iranian officials in June 2010, is a
malware designed to infect computers using a control system favored by
industries that manage water supplies, oil rigs, and power plants.
In July 2010, media reports claimed that Stuxnet had targeted
industrial computers around the globe, with Iran being the main target
of the attack. They said the country's Bushehr nuclear power plant was
at the center of the cyber attack.
However, Iranian experts detected the virus in time, averting any
damage to the country's industrial sites and resources.
On Wednesday, Head of the Information Technology Organization of Iran
Ali Hakim Javadi said the country's experts have managed to produce
antivirus software that can spot and remove the newly detected
computer virus Flame, which experts say is 20 times more powerful than
the Stuxnet virus.
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon strongly hinted Tuesday
that Tel Aviv was involved in creating the computer virus to sabotage
Iran's nuclear energy activities.
Ya'alon expressed support for the creation of the virus and similar
tools, arguing that it was "reasonable" for anyone who sees Iran as a
threat to take such steps.