(New York Times) John Markoff - The Stuxnet software worm repeatedly sought to infect five industrial facilities in Iran over a 10-month period, according to a report released Friday by Symantec, a computer security software firm. Liam Murchu, a security researcher at the firm, said his team was able to chart the path of the infection because Stuxnet recorded the location and type of each computer it infected. Such information would allow the authors of Stuxnet to determine if they had successfully reached their intended target.
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