Iran admits its nuclear facilities are under massive cyberattack

A few months ago I commented on the need to integrate security for the home as the country moves towards a smartgrid. Iran is feeling the pressure of a cyber attack directed at its nuclear program. It would not take a leap of thought for something of this magnitude to hit either the US Grid itself, or individual homes

Iran has confirmed that 30,000 computers in the country's power stations, including the nuclear reactor in Bushehr, have been attacked by the Stuxnet worm; the Stuxnet worm is described by experts as the most complex piece of malware ever designed; once Stuxnet gains access to a plant's computers, it hunts out specific software that controls operations such as the opening and closing of valves or temperature regulation; by halting those processes it can cause extensive damage to nuclear power stations, power grids or other industrial facilities; the high number of infections in Iran have led experts to conclude that the worm may have been designed in the United States or Israel to disable Iran's controversial nuclear facilities

http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/iran-admits-its-nuclear-facilities-are-under-massive-cyberattack

For more information on the SmartGrid you can check out the NIST Smart Grid Report: http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/