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Obama ordered Stuxnet cyber attack on Iran against nuclear program, claims book | US President Barack Obama ordered the Stuxnet cyber
attack on Iran against its would-be nuclear power preparations, according to a new book citing senior Washington sources. The computer virus, aimed at the Natanz
uranium enrichment facility, was designed to damage centrifuges by making secret
adjustments to the machines controlling them. According to The Telegraph, it was
part of a 'wave' of digital attacks on Iran 's code named 'Olympic Games' program.
It was created with the assistance of a secret Israeli intelligence unit, a report
based on a book chronicling secret wars under the Obama administration revealed.
Computer security experts, who detected and forensically examined Stuxnet in 2010,
said that the technical expertise and human intelligence sources needed to create
'world's first cyberweapon' was through a joint operation by American and Israeli
agencies. It is estimated that Stuxnet crippled around 1,000 of 5,000 Natanz centrifuges
by spinning them at damagingly high speeds. "This is the first attack of a major
nature in which a cyberattack was used to effect physical destruction," Michael
Hayden, former director of the CIA and NSA, said. "Obama wanted to get credit
for Stuxnet, as that makes him look tough against Iran ," Mikko Hypponen, chief
research officer at F-Secure, one of the security firms that have investigated
Stuxnet, said. Confirmation of America 's involvement in Stuxnet attacks came
after computer security experts began to unravel an even more complicated virus,
Flame, which was detected last month and also appears to target Iran. The same
officials declined to say whether the United States was involved in the 'Flame'
attack, which appears to have begun five years ago, although they did say it was
not part of the 'Olympic Games' program.
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