can someone help me with that please 1. Why is the Stuxnet event considered to b

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1. Why is the Stuxnet event considered to be historic?

2. What is a danger that the creators of Stuxnet have created for other industrial counties, including the United States? What is the greatest fear created by Stuxnet?

3. Why are people (agents) needed “on the ground” in order for the Stuxnert virus to work?

4. Why did Iran, and American commentators, not consider Stuxnet an act of war

SUMMARY Stuxnet was one of a family of software viruses launched by the United States and Israel in 2010 against Iranian nuclear centrifuges and other industrial facilities that are used to concentrate nuclear fuel to nuclear bomb-grade quality. The Stuxnet event in 2010 was arguably the first documented instance of one nation attacking another using computer software. In 2011 and 2012, Stuxnet became a powerful symbol of a newly emerging weapon and style of war. It is unclear at this time if the Stuxnet attacks delayed the Iranian nuclear project to any significant degree; L 553 URL http://www.youtube.co match?VEkw "zLT3ak&playnext;=1&list;=PLsa-cHb8w-PPOLAHS4 vUOanM3pm3xyk&feature; results video CASE The Stuxnet worm is a high-visibility example of the use of malware (viruses) to disrupt an industrial process in an advanced country. It is an example of cyberwarfare because it was launched by one nation against another nation with the intent of causing harm to the civil- ian and military capabilities of the target nation. First discovered in June 2010, Stuxnet was designed to disable the computers that control the centrifuges in Iran's uranium enrichment process. Many commentators believe Stuxnet was created by a joint United States-Israel operation code-named Olympic Games. Iran has reported the virus caused Siemens' industrial centrifuges to spin out of control and eventually destroy themselves. The virus works by infecting industrial control devices called programmable logic controllers," or PLCs, in this case also made by Siemens. PLCs are used

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1) It is considered to be historic because it was the first confirmed act of cyber warfare. It was able to crash power grids. It was designed to hit one specific target in the entire world. It opens a new era of warfare.

2) It showed other countries that no one is safe from it, and every country is vulnerable. The greatest fear created by stuxnet that anyone can access it and can be redsigned and used against countries.

3) It requires physical implantatiion in order to work which increased computer infection. The attacker use a memory stick that contained the virus.

4) US government offcials do not consider Stuxnet an act of war because the people behind Stuxnet do not considers it an act of war.
Iranian offcials did not respond to Stuxnet with war, and so they didn't considered it as an act of war.

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