Air Force General William Shelton is warning that Iran is becoming a “threat” to the United States in the field of cyber-warfare, saying they have been growing their forces since the 2010 US-Israeli Stuxnet attack.
Stuxnet was a Windows-based computer worm targeting Siemens’ Step 7 industrial devices, initially aimed at Iran, the worm escaped and infected tens of thousands of systems worldwide, harming industry across the world, including in the US.
President Obama was eventually confirmed to have ordered the launching of cyberattacks against Iran as one of his first acts as president, creating a program that gave birth to Stuxnet and other virii. Obama then ordered the program to continue in the wake of Stuxnet’s escape, ordering teams to continue developing more ways to attack.
Much speculation surrounds Iran’s own program, as the US has regularly blamed it when web sites begin to run unexpectedly slow, but has produced no evidence that Iran was actually behind such efforts. With a cyberwar clearly underway against them, however, it is clear they have invested more money in retaliatory capabilities.
Fuck with the lies of air force general!!!
Suprise, Iran has developed a Cyber Unit, what does the US expect if they attack Iran first, do they not remember what happenned after 9/11. The US went after those that attacked it, surely the Pentagon doesnt expect others not to retaliate in kind if they are attacked as well!
In the Cold war days it was bear baiting tht was the Pentagons favorite game, now iran has that honor!
Another great point in history . This will be remembered as the day American Military leadership joined the public prostitution of their integrity .
Not that is new ; it just became public .
Kudos . Our military leadership now officially joined the ranks of moral prostitutes …. Our politicians are not alone anymore !!!!
That goes around comes around..