NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar | Threat Level | Wired.com:
"And he and his cyberwarriors have already launched their first attack. The cyberweapon that came to be known as Stuxnet was created and built by the NSA in partnership with the CIA and Israeli intelligence in the mid-2000s. The first known piece of malware designed to destroy physical equipment, Stuxnet was aimed at Iran’s nuclear facility in Natanz. By surreptitiously taking control of an industrial control link known as a Scada (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system, the sophisticated worm was able to damage about a thousand centrifuges used to enrich nuclear material." (read more at link above)
U.K. to Probe Huawei Cyber-Security Center | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: "The U.K. government will conduct a review of a cyber-security center run by Huawei to ensure that it is actually effective. The country's National Security Adviser will "carry out a review" of the center, which is known as the Cell, according to a new report from the U.K.'s Intelligence and Security Committee. The committee issued its report after Prime Minister David Cameron last month raised concerns in his own report to Parliament about Huawei's operations in the U.K."
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