Stuxnet. War is on.
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- benfal99
Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stu…
- -Stuxnet is a new kind of computer virus. Never seen before.
"the most refined piece of malware ever discovered ... mischief or financial reward wasn’t its purpose, it was aimed right at the heart of a critical infrastructure"
- -All the experts says a new kind of war is coming, a war that will take place online in virtual worlds but will make real damage to real life...
Do you think the US Government is behind that Stuxnet virus to slow down the process of the building of the Iranian nuclear plants?
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- benfal990
"Stuxnet malware is 'weapon' out to destroy ... Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant?"
L: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/3271…
- benfal990
It's crazy shit
The Associated Press reported that the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency released a statement on 24 September 2010 stating that experts from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran met in the previous week to discuss how Stuxnet could be removed from their systems.[2] Western intelligence agencies have been attempting to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program for some time, according to analysts.[37][38]
The head of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant told Reuters that only the personal computers of staff at the plant had been infected by Stuxnet and the state-run newspaper Iran Daily quoted Reza Taghipour, Iran's telecommunications minister, as saying that it had not caused "serious damage to government systems".[23] Director of Information Technology Council at the Iranian Ministry of Industries and Mines, Mahmud Liaii has said that: "An electronic war has been launched against Iran... This computer worm is designed to transfer data about production lines from our industrial plants to locations outside Iran."[39]
It is believed that infection had originated from Russian laptops belonging to Russian contractors at the site of Bushehr power plant and spreading from there with the aim of targeting the power plant control systems.[40][41][42] It has also been reported that the United States, under one of its most secret programs, initiated by George W Bush and accelerated by the Obama administration, has sought to destroy Iran's nuclear program by novel methods such as undermining Iranian computer systems.[43] In response to the infection, Iran has assembled a team to combat it. With more than 30,000 IP addresses affected in Iran, an official has said that the infection is fast spreading in Iran and the problem has been compounded by the ability of Stuxnet to mutate. Iran has set up its own systems to clean up infections and has advised against using the Siemens SCADA antivirus since it is suspected that the antivirus is actually embedded with codes which update Stuxnet instead of eradicating it.[44][45][46][47]
According to Hamid Alipour, deputy head of Iran's Information Technology Company, "The attack is still ongoing and new versions of this virus are spreading." He reports that his company had begun the cleanup process at Iran's "sensitive centres and organisations."[45] "We had anticipated that we could root out the virus within one to two months, but the virus is not stable, and since we started the cleanup process three new versions of it have been spreading," he told the Islamic Republic News Agency.[47]
- nb0
I honestly think that most of us forget we're just at the very start of the internet age, the world is going to be a very different place in the future.From the wikipedia:
"Among its peculiar capabilities is a fingerprinting technology which allows it to precisely identify the systems it infects. It appears to be looking for a particular system to destroy at a specific time and place. Once it has infected a system it performs a check every 5 seconds to determine if its parameters for launching an attack are met. The exact way through which Stuxnet destroys its target is still a mystery but it is thought that it may be programmed to cause a catastrophic physical failure by, for example, overriding turbine RPM limits or shutting down lubrication or cooling systems.[30][35] Since the complex code of Stuxnet looks for a very particular type of system and controller, it has been theorized that the target is of a high importance for the attacker."
Crazy.
- ukit0
- ukit0
- autoflavour0
they should just be using mac's
- don't even start man,
today 4 out of the 6 macs, started all rebooting by themselves.....georgesIII
- don't even start man,
- Continuity0
I've read this whole sort of thing before.
I think the novel was called Neuromancer.
- nb0
Now reporting 6 million infections in China!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/201…
- instrmntl0
yikes
- nb0
HEAVY.
- VikingKingEleven0
The 3 witches of the west.
- VikingKingEleven0
Notice how America's allies are being taken down and set up...
Notice how Obama said America will 'Absord' a nuclear attack.
Pull your head out of your butts because a face of evil has come over this earth like you have never seen.