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Computer security: Is this the start of cyberwarfare?

Last year's Stuxnet virus attack represented a new kind of threat to critical infrastructure.

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Sharon Weinberger is an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow based in Washington DC.

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Weinberger, S. Computer security: Is this the start of cyberwarfare?. Nature 474, 142–145 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/474142a

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