Another Cyber Attack Directed Against Iran

Iran 'Fends Off New Stuxnet Cyber Attack' -- BBC

A power plant and other industries in southern Iran have been targeted by the Stuxnet computer worm, an Iranian civil defence official says.


But the cyber attack has been successfully rebuffed and prevented from spreading, Iranian media report.

Iran's nuclear enrichment efforts were hit hard in 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, which was also blamed for problems at industrial plants and factories.

Tehran accused Israel and the US of planting the malware.

Provincial civil defence chief Ali Akbar Akhavan said Iranian industry was constantly being targeted by "enemy cyber attacks" and companies in Hormozgan province had recently been infiltrated, the semi-official Isna news agency reported.

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More News On Reports That Iran Is Being Targeted In A New Cyber Attack

Iranian news agency reports another cyberattack by Stuxnet worm targeting industries in south -- Washington Post/AP
Stuxnet attacks Iran again, reports say -- CNet
Iran says it fended off cyber attack on industrial sites -- NBC
Cyber-attack on communication system at Iran’s industrial facilities -- Voice of Russia
Iran thwarts cyber attack against electricity company -- Press TV (Iran)
Report: Iran Defeats New Cyber Attack -- Voice of America
Iran Suggests Attacks on Computer Systems Came From the U.S. and Israel -- New York Times

Update: Iran denies foiling cyber attack on industrial units: Report -- Economic Times

The Impact Of Hurricane Sandy Reveals What A Cyber Attack Can Inflict

Network News -- Joel Brenner, Foreign Policy

Sandy turned off the lights, the phones, and the heat. A cyber attack could make it all happen again.

Verizon's chief technology officer surveyed a flooded major switching facility in lower Manhattan and put it bluntly: "There is nothing working here. Quite frankly, this is wider than the impacts of 9/11." Damage from Sandy is estimated to reach $20 billion, and interrupted phone service is among the least of it. Flooding in New York's century-old subway system is without parallel. Bridges and roads, homes and businesses have been destroyed. Days after the storm, many businesses remain closed, their employees out of work. And tens of thousands are suffering -- cold and in the dark.

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My Comment: Our infrastructure is now dependent on the grid .... as a result, it's shutdown (as we can see in New York City and New Jersey) can be catastrophic.