Stuxnet: The most serious threat yet?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 20, 2010

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“Stuxnet is something unique, however. It has been
causing something of a stir in the security community since it was
first spotted by a small company from Belarus named VirusBlokAda.

“When Microsoft put out an alert over the virus in July, Stuxnet
quickly moved from being a relative unknown to something
serious.

“Then earlier this month, Stuxnet was observed doing something
unprecedented: exploiting four zero-day vulnerabilities at once. It
is this advanced capability that has caused such a commotion.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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