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Cyber Attack Causes Iran's Nuclear Facility Computers To Play AC/DC On Repeat

Two of Iran's nuclear plants have been struck by a cyber attack, causing all the computers to play AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" on repeat at full volume.

This lates virus shut down the facilities in Natanz and Fordow, and cranked them up to 11.  Finnish cyber security site F-Secure's researcher Mikko Hypponen had received several emails to himself and his team from a scientist at the Atomic Energy Organization or Iran.

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Video game developer sentenced to death in Iran

Former US Marine and developer at Kuma Games, Amir Mizra Hekmati has been convicted of espionage and sentenced to death for developing a game that's critical of Iran, with the courts going so far as to call him a spy for the CIA.

Hekmati was accused specifically on propaganda charges: creating games intended to influence the public opinion surrounding US operations in Iran.

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