databases and communications systems. These connected devices span a wide range, from smart toasters to centrifuges enriching uranium. Even afish-tank thermometercan expose firms to trouble from hackers.
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NORM ROULE: In essence, Iran didn't just have a program to produce electricity. They were building enriching uranium. They were using plutonium in a fashion to build nuclear warheads, which they would likely attach to their intermediate range ballistic missiles, which would allow the...
Stuxnet infected logic controllers running industrial machinery, specifically targeting centrifuges used for enriching uranium. The malware made the centrifuges spin out of control and tear themselves apart, severely disruption Iran’s nuclear program. Soon this kind of Cyber Coercion became an establish...
Uranium is used as a power source in nuclear reactors and was used to make the first atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Uranium is mined as an ore called pitchblende, and consists of several isotopes of different atomic weights and...