Cyber crime: The rats that gain access by the click of a mouse

When Iran took the unusual step of announcing that its Bushehr nuclear power plant had been infected by a piece of malicious software,

Concern had been growing for months over the potential impact of Stuxnet, a new highly sophisticated computer worm that had been targeting the programs at the heart of core industrial operating systems around the world. What particularly worried the security community was that Stuxnet was the first example of a computer program designed to cause serious damage to the physical world.

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