The defenders of Israel are screaming that there is no proof that STUXNET was anywhere near Fukushima before the quake and tsunami. As this article confirms, Japanese computer security experts were seeing STUXNET infections across Japan a whole 8 months before the quake hit. Given the failure of Fukushima safety systems using those same Siemens controllers STUXNET was designed to infect, it is impossible to rule out STUXNET as a factor.
Stuxnet, a computer virus designed to attack servers isolated from the Internet, such as at power plants, has been confirmed on 63 personal computers in Japan since July, according to major security firm Symantec Corp.
The virus does not cause any damage online, but once it enters an industrial system, it can send a certain program out of control.
Symantec says the virus reaches the servers via USB memory sticks, and warns against the careless use of such devices.
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