September 27 2010
Iran has confirmed that its power stations and nuclear reactor have been infected with a computer virus, the Financial Times (U.K.) reports.
The government said no major systems were damaged.
The state-run Mehr news agency reported that at least 30,000 computer systems were infected by the Stuxnet worm.
This malware is thought to be the first program designed to cause serious damage in the physical world. It has affected an unknown number of power plants, pipelines and...
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