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Source: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/09/despite-iranian-claims-stuxnet-worm-causing-nuclear-havoc/
Stuxnet Worm Still Out of Control at Iran's Nuclear Sites, Experts Say
(Fox News) Ed Barnes - American and European cybersecurity experts say their websites, which deal with the computer worm known as Stuxnet, continue to be swamped with traffic from Iran, an indication that the worm continues to infect the computers at Iran's nuclear sites. Examination of the worm shows it was a cybermissile equipped with a warhead that targeted and took over the controls of the centrifuge systems at Iran's uranium processing center in Natanz, and it had a second warhead that targeted the massive turbine at the nuclear reactor in Bashehr. Eric Byres, a computer expert who has studied the worm, said efforts to get the two nuclear plants to function normally have failed. The worm targeted only the two nuclear sites and did no damage to the thousands of other computers it infiltrated. Ralph Langner, the German expert who was among the first to raise alarms about Stuxnet, said, "The Iranians don't have the depth of knowledge to handle the worm or understand its complexity," raising the possibility that they may never succeed in eliminating it.