Tehran: The Stuxnet computer worm has infected 30,000 computers in Iran but has failed to “cause serious damage,” Iranian officials were quoted as saying on Sunday.

Some 30,000 IP addresses have been infected by Stuxnet so far in Iran, Mahmoud Liayi, head of the information technology council at the ministry of industries, was quoted as saying by the government-run paper Iran Daily.



Stuxnet, which was publicly identified in June, was tailored for Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems commonly used to manage water supplies, oil rigs, power plants and other industrial facilities.

Stuxnet is able to recognise a specific facility’s control network and then destroy it, according to German computer security researcher Ralph Langner, who has been analysing the malicious software, or malware.

Langner suspected Stuxnet’s target was the Bushehr nuclear facility in Iran, where unspecified...

Neurons to inspire future computers




The way nerve cells communicate is being studied by the research teams.


The way neurons communicate could inspire the next generation of computers.


Researchers are developing novel computers by mimicking the way that neurons are built and how they talk to each other.

Basing computers around neurons could lead to improvements in visual and audio processing on computers.

It might mean that computers learn to see or to hear in the future rather than just rely on sensors.

As well as building computers, the researchers are also helping to improve understanding of nerve cells and how they operate.




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