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Management Information Systems 13e KENNETH C. LAUDON AND JANE P. LAUDON CHAPTER 8 SECURING INFORMATION SYSTEMS CASE 1 Stuxnet and Cyberwarfare VIDEO CASE SUMMARY Stuxnet was one of a family of software viruses launched by the United States and Israel in 2010 against Iranian nuclear centrifuges and other industrial facilitiesSy stemsthat are used to concentrate nuclear fuel to nuclear bomb-grade quality. The Stuxnet event in 2010 was arguably the first documented instance of one nation attacking another using computer software. In 2011 and 2012, Stuxnet became a powerful symbol of a newly emerging weapon and style of war. It is unclear at this time if the Stuxnet attacks delayed the Iranian nuclear project to any significant degree; L= 5:53. URL /watch?v=kw--zLJT3akplaynext=1list=PLs_q-cHb8wi-PP0lAHS4 vUOanM3pm3xykfeature=results_video CASE The Stuxnet worm is a high-visibility example of the use of malware (viruses) to disrupt an industrial process in an advanced country. It is an example of cyberwarfare because it was launched by one nation against another nation with the intent of causing harm to the civil- ian and military capabilities of the target nation. First discovered in June 2010, Stuxnet was designed to disable the computers that control the centrifuges in Iran’s uranium enrichment process. Many commentators believe Stuxnet was created by a joint United States–Israel operation code-named Olympic Games. Iran continued Chapter 8, Case 1 stuxnet and Cyberwarfare 2 has reported the virus caused Siemens’ industrial centrifuges to spin out of control and eventual