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DHS on lookout for Stuxnet copycats

Sean McGurk, director of DHS\' National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, told a House subcommittee the agency is watching out for Stuxnet va...

Federal News Network Staff

July 28, 2011 11:35 am

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Here comes “son-of-Stuxnet.”

Cybersecurity blog DarkReading.com reports that the Department of Homeland Security is looking out for this latest version of the cyber worm that is reputed to have crippled Iran’s nascent nuclear program last summer.

Sean McGurk, director of the DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, told the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations that attackers could create variants of Stuxnet and target programmable equipment in control systems.

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