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Sophisticated Computer Virus Targets Iran

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    Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton on the recent cyber attacks on Iran.

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-- story we've got published reports calling it the biggest cyber attack of all time.

Iran is the primary target of something called the flame up a virus.

This sophisticated virus is reported to designed to collect and delete sensitive information about Iran's nuclear program.

And a virus reportedly -- turned on and off from a remote computer in another country.

John Bolton is the former US ambassador to the United Nations.

So I'm not asking you technical questions about this virus I'm asking you about is this a new form of war fat.

Has war actually being declared on Iran via the silence on the route and -- this -- going well I don't.

Think there's any doubt that cyber warfare is the wave of the future we've seen already the stocks -- virus deployed against the Iran in nuclear program.

It had some effect but very limited what this new virus can do obviously we don't know yet.

But it would be naive I think to believe that Iran had not begun building defenses against that -- supposed to be ten times more powerful than the old stocks -- -- that that's what would have given to believe.

Well it's possible but this could also be psychological warfare -- the Obama administration is desperate.

To stop and Israeli preemptive military strike against Iran's program so saying that some computer geek is gonna solve the Iran in nuclear.

A problem forests is just more pressure on Israel potentially look I'm all in favor of doing whatever we can to delete everything on Iran's computers I'm just not counting on -- It is up maybe -- one of the pluses for the stock market and may be for the oil market as well because if you can.

Persuade everybody to lay off it usually does he'll argue it if you believe that -- we should we should have a conversation after -- -- I -- -- -- I can ask two quick questions and what does this mean that other countries are also wounded in the same thing is -- -- vulnerability.

For America should we -- and are we defensive about this type of an invasion of them there.

-- we should -- I hope this flame virus is of American origin because it will show -- finally gotten on the offensive you know we have been the subject of cyber attacks from China for years.

And China probably has the world's most aggressive cyber warfare that I don't hold a second you say that they've been attacking us at salute to disable his or just suck out -- what what to do a variety of things to to test vulnerabilities to get information to see what their capabilities are to put in.

Viruses civil activate years later the Pentagon has studied this and they've concluded many of these attacks come from the Chinese quick question liberation army OK if we have a military battle with C it's -- -- if we -- -- and its army and Marines.

What part of the military is in charge of this well there isn't cyber command that has been set -- and I think that's a very positive development I'd have to say though I think we are coming from behind I think the Chinese have much better.

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