President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted Monday that "several" uranium enrichment centrifuges were damaged by "software installed in electronic equipment," amid speculation that Iran's nuclear activities had come under cyber attack.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted Monday that "several"
uranium enrichment centrifuges were damaged by "software installed in
electronic equipment," amid speculation that
Iran
's
nuclear activities had come under cyber attack.
"They were able to disable on a limited basis some of our centrifuges by
software installed in electronic equipment," Ahmadinejad told reporters
when asked whether
Iran
's
nuclear program had faced any problems.
"Our specialists stopped that and they will not be able to do it
again," he added without elaborating on the software thought to have been
used.
Computer security firm Symantec said this month that computer worm Stuxnet
might have been designed to disrupt the motors that power gas centrifuges used
to enrich uranium.
Iranian officials have insisted that the Islamic republic's nuclear program
hasn't been harmed by Stuxnet, and denied there was any halt in the enrichment
work.
But the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations
nuclear watchdog, said in its latest report last week that a one-day outage had
hit
Iran
's
Natanz enrichment nuclear plant earlier this month.
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