Iran puts off Bushehr nuclear plant launch to early 2011

From the article: "It could, technically, make factory boilers explode, destroy gas pipelines or even cause a nuclear plant to malfunction. " Siemens sells their PLCs to more places than Iran. Evidently china was a big customer, probably spending extra and using German technology rather that Chinese PLCs. Are you going to cheer when chinese get hurt or killed by the idiocy of a virus aimed at Iran.

how many countries would be affected by the busher meltdown??...

Focus on peace, not war.

Yes...it was me. I did it. And it's really no big deal. Once its conditions are met, a hen with five little chicks in tow is going to march across the screens of the infected computers, from left to right, then fiive seconds after they disappear into the right edge of the monitor, they all peek back onto it, as if looking around a corner with eyes wide and declare, "your shell's been cracked!" Then POOF...they disappear.

THE ONLY WAY TO ACHIVE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS TO ALLOW IRAN TO BECOME NUKE ARM STATE! ZIONIST STATE OF ISRAEL RESPECT ONLY THE POWERFULL NEIGHBOURS!

As the stuxnet virus was detected and analyzed prematurely, it wasn't able to cause serious damage to the Iranian nuclear facilities. I guess Iran is using the time until year's end to 'harden' Bushehr and other nuclear facilities against stuxnet like attacks. Just to make sure this threat is eliminated for ever.

Witness the hand of G-d at work.

there's a reason these things are called viruses, and it can just as easily affect those other than its target. The precedent has been set!

This is terrific! Israel is one of the most high-tech countries in the world and is clearly capable of this...the fact that there are no strong denials makes me think Israel is quite happy to let the Iranian terrorists feel the wrath of the only democratic State in the Middle East! Those that are critical of Israel are just p`d off that Israel has done it again (and will do so again, and again, and again until the Iranians realise they cannot win!) Keep it up, Israel!

Now if it was Israel who did it just think if it works there and if Turkey, Lebenon, Syria give you a problem well good bye computer systems, and some may even destroy missille systems not a bad idea

Just imagine if Iran was behind this virus attack on another country? The entire western world would be up in flamme talking about this type of terror. Since it is the spoiled country of jews who carried out this attack, the world is applauding and welcominmg such act. No wonder there is no justice around this globe.

There is something self-contradictory in Russia's behavior. On the one hand she objects to Iran enriching Uranium even to the low 3.5% level for power plants, and on the other hand supplies Iran with such processed product which allows Iran to keep her stock of Uranium. A good solution for the contradiction would be for Russia to demand from Iran partial payment "in kind" for future reactors it will build, that is, pay for the fuel rods by giving to Russia the enriched Uranium used to produce them. This should be acceptable to Iran, after all, they claim that their Uranium is enriched to serve as fuel. The fact is that Iran does not have enough Uranium to run many power plants, so they will run out of the stuff soon enough. Problem solved.

or do we?, hackers are in all countries, hezbollah via iran attacks israel and vice-versa, i dare say this was picked up early by iran, but they are using it to make the world think they are in trouble, just to buy some time, but israelis here automaticaly think it was them and gloat about it, i suspect something smells fishy here.

Well we know that was a lie. The virus attacks industrial controllers, not desktop workstations. Based on that obvious lie, we can be sure that the Stuxnet worm is still causing them problems.

The west have more to lose in state sponsored computer war,slippery slop. We can't even keep our secret in Afghanistan and Iraq from getting out into the public.

Stop crying State Terrorism!! Iran does enough of that Worldwide. YOu can't prove where it came from but the mere fact that you think Israel has the ability to do something so complex is a statement to its totally advanced technology. So let me ask you Nils. If Israel can do things like this why do they need to launch nukes???

... but more importantly, their setback is more G-d's internal scan and judgment of their illegitimate Regime, and there's more to come!

it is obvious they are lying to their teeth. they already have nuclear bomb.

I am against nuclear weapons period. But Israel’s hypocrisy on this issue will inevitably lead to one or several of its enemies to develop a deterrent to Israeli nukes”. Israeli leaders are Obsessive-neurotic-paranoid with delusions of grandeur

are like with his mouth shut

Yes, Iran will obtain nuclear weapons, even if the mullahs are overthrown. Having spent about a quarter of the nations GDP on obtaining credible nuclear weapons capability, do you really think any Iranian regime would simply throw it all in the trash? Israel has illegally nuclear weapons, so Iran has also right to have nuclear arms to stop Israel.

Sabotage against Iran? I certainly hope so. Have no doubts that Iran is conducting war against Israel and Iran's Arab neighbors save Pakistan. The militant terrorists who currently control iran deserve evisceration, the sooner the better.

September 22, 2010 The Stuxnet Worm It's impressive: The Stuxnet worm is a "groundbreaking" piece of malware so devious in its use of unpatched vulnerabilities, so sophisticated in its multipronged approach, that the security researchers who tore it apart believe it may be the work of state-backed professionals. "It's amazing, really, the resources that went into this worm," said Liam O Murchu, manager of operations with Symantec's security response team. "I'd call it groundbreaking," said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior antivirus researcher at Kaspersky Lab. In comparison, other notable attacks, like the one dubbed Aurora that hacked Google's network and those of dozens of other major companies, were child's play. EDITED TO ADD (9/22): Here's an interesting theory: By August, researchers had found something more disturbing: Stuxnet appeared to be able to take control of the automated factory control systems it had infected – and do whatever it was programmed to do with them. That was mischievous and dangerous. But it gets worse. Since reverse engineering chunks of Stuxnet's massive code, senior US cyber security experts confirm what Mr. Langner, the German researcher, told the Monitor: Stuxnet is essentially a precision, military-grade cyber missile deployed early last year to seek out and destroy one real-world target of high importance – a target still unknown. The article speculates that the target is Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, but there's not much in the way of actual evidence to support that.

and you are to arrogant to see this is just the first salvo in a war you will lose

I guess the virrus will strike Israel's own reactor. They will taste their own poison.

this destructive virus targets the brains of Ahmadinejad and his supporters too and renders them powerless..........

How I like this,how I like this.......!!!!!!!HiHiHiHi!!!!!!!!

Whoever did it - GREAT WORK!! Keep it up.

Given Israel's superior technology, maybe the time has come to cripple Iran's entire communications infrastructure by hacking into and taking down all of their computer networks. Besides, Israel can deny they had anything to do with it. Its bloodless,and better than bombs. After a few weeks, they will be ready to cooperate!

Which I posted a year ago in response to Mark Lincoln’s assertion that there was no evidence that Iran was seeking nukes and, even if it were, there was nothing Israel could do about it.

Dont kid yourselves. and dont be so quick to rule out obamas admin playing this up to avert responsibility of having to take the military route. This is JUST a delay, and a good one, BUT, their program will have to be taken out militarily with gbu's and other such goodies.

Hooray for our nerds; hope they can get a date..

There will come a time in which an enemy of Israel will have a nuclear weapon and will have to decide how to use it. It may not even be Iran. Israel is living from day to day on this issue and there is nothing to be done about it.

So what if they say their systems are down because of the virus and they are really playing us for fools. Pretty sure they probably have multiple back up systems. Israel isnt the only country that can lie, you know.

Dont kid yourselves. and dont be so quick to rule out obamas admin playing this up to avert responsibility of having to take the military route. This is JUST a delay, and a good one, BUT, their program will have to be taken out militarily with gbu's and other such goodies.

Whoever created that Virus, your one smart cookie - and I imagine you are celebrating. I am too!

Time for UN various useless organizations to probe and investigate The Crimes against Machinary, and condemn Israel. HAAHAA, how many more worms are there that no one knows about? I would be scared to death if I was an Iranian official.

With Iran in the fore front of acceptance and promotion of the Palestinian gay community, of which I am a proud member, this is a despicable act meant to undermine President Ahmadinejad's glorious agenda of universal peace harmony and free sexual orientation.

Systems all over the world have been infected with the Stuxnet worm. Especially in Europe and India. It is a very dangerous worm which attacks Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition systems via their Programmable Logic Controllers. The PCL rootkit allows persons with knowledge of the worm - not just those who created it - to wreak havoc upon any plant utilizing SCADA PCL controls. Especially those built by Siemens. This worm gives those using it the ability to destroy plants, bring down power grids, devastate industries. The general assumption is that either the US or Israel created Stuxnet to target Iran. The authors of Stuxnet have in fact created what could become a disaster for much of the industrialized world. Even more ominous, hackers and crackers are acquiring samples which will serve as models for an entire new form of Cyberthreat. Like Ronald Reagan's 'neat idea' of fostering Islamist 'freedom fighters' which became Al Queada and the Taliban, Stuxnet is probably a 'neat idea' which will end up being the harbinger of a far greater threat to it's creators than it's intended target.

"Bushehr is also being monitored by inspectors of the U.N. nuclear watchdog".

This is what I call a "Clean" way of slowing down Iran's efforts to produce nuclear weapons ! Whomever is responsible for creating this Stuxnet worm should be rewarded with a Nobel prize for PEACE.

busher provides only 2.5 %. so Iran will need another 40 nuclear powerplants.

Only a real infidel could be fooled by this ruse!

Do we have here an official act of war against Iran?

The discovery of atomic/nuclear energy has led sadly to the wide demand for such power ....and the potential of wiping society off the planet. Now we see the newest threat of modern warfare. Diabling. We are so dependent on powerful computers to help us get by daily that we now see the risk of these computers being attacked from anywhere in the world.

Sounds good. That is the way to go Israel. Keep up the pressure.

for a while until they fight the virus and construct a firewall

they are going to work the reactor on low level for three month then extract the spent fuel reprocess it and make a couple of bomb then later put the full fuel back and wait for six month to a year then produce 50 nuclear device we are doomed

this is cleary stateterrorism, how about Iran put a virus in the Dimona reactor plant?