U.S. Nuclear Weapons Lab Removes Suspicious Chinese Tech From Their Computers

Los Alamos National Laboratory. (Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Exclusive: U.S. Nuclear Lab Removes Chinese Tech Over Security Fears -- Reuters

A leading U.S. Nuclear weapons laboratory recently revealed its notebook systems enclosed a quantity of Chinese-made interact switches and replaced next to slightest two components since of state security concerns, a file shows. A dispatch from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, dated November 5, 2012, states to facilitate the delve into resource had installed strategy made by H3C Technologies Co, based in Hangzhou, figurines, according to a ape seen by Reuters. H3C began as a seam venture amid China's Huawei Technologies Co and 3Com Corp, a U.S. Tech solidify, and was as soon as called Huawei-3Com. Hewlett Packard Co acquired the solidify in 2010.

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Iran Has Enhanced It's Cyber Capabilities

Photo: General William Shelton, Current Commander, Air Force Space Command. Wikipedia

Iran Strengthened Cyber Capabilities After Stuxnet: U.S. General -- Reuters

(Reuters) - 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 upcoming, a senior U.S. Air Force endorsed told reporters on Thursday.

General William Shelton, who heads Air Force Space Command and oversees the Air Force's cyber operations, declined to comment around Iran's capability to disrupt U.S. Government notebook networks, but held Tehran had visibly increased its hard work in to facilitate arena in the same way as the 2010 fight.

While rejection government has taken conscientiousness representing the Stuxnet notebook virus to facilitate destroyed centrifuges next to Iran's Natanz uranium enhancement resource, it was widely reported to own been a U.S.-Israeli project. 
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Update #1: Iran’s Cyber Threat Potential Great, U.S. General Says -- Bloomberg  
Update #2: Iran beefed up cyber capabilities after Stuxnet: US general -- NBC  

My Comment: I guess this explains why U.S. banks are now worried about their own cyber security.