Stuxnet virus threat is real

The World

Iran discovered a malicious computer attack that appears to target its nuclear targets. Officials there have called it a western plot. But industry insiders believe the so-called computer worm Stuxnet actually did not do what it was intended for � disrupting Iranian centrifuges. The World’s technology correspondent Clark Boyd reports.

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