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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia denies reported cyberattack on Iran's nuclear power plant
2011-01-17
Follow-up to the story from earlier today.
Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom on Monday denied a reported virus contamination in the Iranian Bushehr nuclear power plant (NPP)'s computer system.
"Lies! All lies!"
Earlier in the day, British newspaper Daily Telegraph said a Stuxnet virus, which was developed supposedly at Israeli Dimona NPP, had installed itself into the computers of the NPP built by Russians, also Iran's first one.
"Soviet Russian computers are immune to viruses!"
However, according to Sergei Novikov, a Rosatom spokesman, "there are no viruses in the power plant's computer network, especially in units responsible for security, because this network is totally autonomous and isolated from external sources."
"We say it cannot happen, therefore it did not happen!"
The Daily Telegraph referred to some Russian experts specialists working in Bushehr, saying that the virus had already done "enormous damage" to the reactor and that Russian team "cannot guarantee safe activation of the reactor." "Russian nuclear officials have warned of another Chernobyl-style nuclear disaster at Iran's controversial Bushehr reactor because of the damage caused by the Stuxnet virus," the newspaper said.
Ignore those infidel experts, Mahmoud, light that sucker up...
In response, Rosatom said the virus had not sneaked into the automatic control system of the NPP's technological processes, and stressed that nothing has endangered the reactor control system.
"The reactor control system is every bit as safe as any in Russia!"
Fears about possible aftermath of the Stuxnet computer virus on Bushehr NPP's security first appeared in October 2010, when Russian technicians started loading the first nuclear rods into the reactor.

The commercial launch of the Bushehr NPP was expected within weeks, according to Russia's Foreign Ministry.
Posted by:gorb

#4  ION PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > DAGAN BACKTRACKS: IRAN MAY HAVE NUKES BY 2015.

* SAME > EGYPT WARNS WEST TO STAY OUT OF ARAB AFFAIRS. Egypt FM Ahmed Gheit responds to Hillary.

* WAFF > THE RISE OF FANATICAL "ISRAELI AYATOLLAHS" PROMOTES ANTI-ZIONISTS.

ISRAELI Rabbinic Extremism = Ultra-Orthodox/Religious Fundamentalists.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-01-17 23:37  

#3  Yea, Suuuuuuuure.
Posted by: Fire and Ice   2011-01-17 21:08  

#2  "Lies! All lies!"

[Sweep sweep sweep]

"Russian computers are immune to viruses!"

Vacuum tubes must be immune.

Ignore those infidel experts, Mahmoud, light that sucker up...

Just give me time to get to Venezuela before you pull the rods.
Posted by: gorb   2011-01-17 15:52  

#1  "These are not the purported virus attacks you are looking for."
/waves USB flash drive
Posted by: SteveS   2011-01-17 15:33  

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