Securing America: Bracing for Another Cyber Attack

FOX News has learned that a new variant of the DUQU computer virus, the same virus linked to the Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear program, has been identified.

FOX Chief Intelligence Correspondent Catherine Herridge reports from Washington in our ongoing series on national security:

According to investigators at Symantec, a California-based computer security firm, the discovery of a new strain of DUQU shows the attackers are still active.  DUQU acts like an advance team, one that steals data to lay the foundation for a major cyber attack.

Investigators believe an older generation of DUQU gathered the data that allowed the Stuxnet computer virus to cripple Iran’s nuclear program in 2009.  Absent other evidence, investigators believe the authors of DUQU and Stuxnet are one in the same, and they are apparently gearing up for a major cyber assault.

In Washington, Catherine Herridge, FOX News Radio.