Analyst's note:  Thought you might appreciate some recent and interesting news on the subject of Stuxnet.  I also recommend an internal site search on the terms of "Iran" and "Stuxnet".   

Reuters is now reporting that the Stuxnet virus that last year damaged Iran's nuclear program was likely one of at least five compatible software modules of cyber weapons developed on a single platform whose roots trace back to a Windows operating system on August 31, 2007.  This according to new research from a Russian computer security firm known as the Kaspersky Lab. 

Just for the record, it is well to remember that the Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.

[....] Security experts widely believe that the United States and Israel were behind Stuxnet, though the two nations have officially declined to comment on the matter.

[....] When a machine becomes infected with Duqu or Stuxnet, the shared components on the platform search for two unique registry keys on the PC linked to Duqu and Stuxnet that are then used to load the main piece of malware onto the computer, he said.

Kaspersky recently discovered new shared components that search for at least three other unique registry keys, which suggests that the developers of Stuxnet and Duqu also built at least three other pieces of malware using the same platform, he added.

[....] Makers of anti-virus software including Kaspersky, U.S. firm Symantec Corp and Japan's Trend Micro Inc have already incorporated technology into their products to protect computers from getting infected with Stuxnet and Duqu.

Yet it would be relatively easy for the developers of those highly sophisticated viruses to create other weapons that can evade detection by those anti-virus programs by the modules in the Tilded platform, he said. [....]