Jim Pierobon is Founder and principal writer of The Energy Fix. He is a policy, marketing and social media strategist who has reported on, testified and consulted about smarter grids, cyber-security as it affects the power grid, fossil fuel shortages, price spikes, energy efficiency and the rise and fall -- and the rise again of nuclear and renewable energy sources.Stuxnet the ‘first unattributable act of war’? Or a tool of modern statecraft?
Vanity Fair writer Michael Joseph Gross, in the magazine’s April issue, tags the “Stuxnet” malware invasion of Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in 2010 the ‘first unattributable act of war.’ While this might be hyperbole, it helps to heighten awareness of how vulnerable control systems that help operate nuclear power plants and other industrial systems [...]