Was The Virus Attack Against Iran's Nuclear Program A Sign Of Future Cyber Attacks To Come?

Stuxnet Virus Attack On Iranian Nuclear Programme: The First Strike By Computer? -- The Telegraph

Iran's nuclear programme has been threatened by a powerful virus distributed through the internet. Richard Spencer reports on a new age of cyber warfare.

On a Vancouver stage last Thursday, a young Irish computing expert gave a filmed presentation showing how the world could end with the pop of a balloon. The presentational qualities are, well, geek-like, the sound quality poor, and the whole experiment has the air of a Year 7 science project. Nevertheless, the YouTube video is spreading like wildfire from one software blog to the next.

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Update: Iran: Nuclear delay due to leak, not computer worm -- AP

My Comment: From what I am reading, problems in Iran's nuclear program are non-virus in nature. Still .... our dependency on the web and computer networks to manage and run our lives raises conerns on how vulnerable are we in the event of a shutdown and/or manipulation of our networks by a virus attack. We are OK today .... but if there is a well coordinated attack on our computer infrastructure tomorrow .... can we then say the same thing?

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