Iran admits Stuxnet hurt nuclear programme

The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has acknowledged that the Stuxnet worm impacted on his country's nuclear programme.

According to a report in The New York Times, Ahmadinejad said Stuxnet had created problems. Speaking at a news conference, the president vowed that the nuclear programme would continue, but acknowledged damage from the computer worm. "They succeeded in creating problems for a limited number of our centrifuges with the software they had installed in electronic parts," he said.

The Iran-Stuxnet story made headines in September, although questions remained as to whether Iran was attacked or was simply lax with its security procedures.

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