In Pictures: The most mortifying moments in IT security history

From Lockheed Martin and HBGary Federal to the US government and Cornell University, no one is immune to humiliating security glitches

When the Stuxnet worm struck industrial control systems at an Iranian nuclear facility, “they succeeded in creating problems for a limited number of our centrifuges with the software they had installed,” acknowledged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about the cyber-attack. Who did it remains shadowy, although one Israeli General boasted about it at his retirement party.

Credit: Morteza Nikoubazl / Reuters

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