Iran strengthens cyber capabilities after Stuxnet

Iran responded to a 2010 cyber attack on its nuclear facilities by beefing up its own cyber capabilities, and will be a "force to be reckoned with" in the future, a senior U.S. Air Force official told reporters on Thursday.

General William Shelton, who heads Air Force Space Command and oversees the Air Force's cyber operations, declined to comment about Iran's ability to disrupt U.S. government computer networks, but said Tehran had clearly increased its efforts in that arena after the 2010 incident.

While no government has taken responsibility for the Stuxnet computer virus that destroyed centrifuges at Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility, it was widely reported to have been a U.S.-Israeli project.

Western analysts say Iran has launched increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks in a growing confrontation with its adversaries, including the United States, Israel and Gulf Arabs, at a time of rising pressure on Tehran to curb its nuclear program.

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? What is the cyber world

Some think it is the world of online computers and communications which implies today's fast moving high-technology world online. That is one way to look at it if you are into abstractions and distractions. We are interested in something more tangible and real; so we've redefined the term to give it the power and meaning that it deserves.

The Cyber World
1. An online world where users have the mechanisms in place to transact any business or personal activity as easily and freely as they can transact them in the physical world.
2. An environment for sophisticated online computing.
3. The futuristic online world of computing.

This Obviously means the cyber world does not exist. Up to now we’ve been having a lot of fun online using a web of documents and data. After 20 years of surfing, maybe it's time to get serious.  It seems we've gotten ourselves caught in a web and we don’t know how to get out.

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