CYBERWAR

Experts Fear Stuxnet Reverse Attack

Cyber weapon was used against Iran.

Stuxnet is a new kind of weapon, and it has experts worried. After a report in The New York Times on Friday revealed that a joint operation by U.S. and Israeli intelligent forces used Stuxnet to sabotage Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, the cybersecurity community began to fret over whether or not the Islamic Republic may be able to turn the gun back on the United States. “In some ways, I do feel as though we’ve been living in a glass house for years and now we’ve decided we’re going to invent rocks,” former NSA official Stewart Baker told reporters. According to the Times story, Obama made the decision to continue the Stuxnet program after the bug leaked to computers internationally in 2010.