Stuxnet
 

Has any of you been reading about this virus/worm? Im blown away by how sophisticated it is. Very intelligent programing. Kinda scary that someone or group could make something that intelligent

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And the inevitable follows...

Cyber Security Act...

There will be an immediate and undeniable need to take over the internet.

All major disasters equal losses of liberty.

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I use Linux,...so I don't have to worry so much about virus attacks (and other such). Unfortunately,...my grown daughter insists on just using windows. I have to go in to her computer and run all kinds of programs to clean out the malware, trojans, viruses, etc. etc. every other day it seems. If Linux ever starts to be a target of virus attacks,....I'll probably move on to one of the BSDs.

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Interesting.

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This worm infected Iran's Nuke facilities which are NOT connected to the internet. Presumably the infection copied itself onto thumb drives or laptops outside and went undetected. That is the genius. The worms intent was NOT to harm everyone's PC or make it a zombie for a DOS attack.

Instead its sole intent was to eventually make its way onto Iran's nuke computers and then cause their centrifuges to spin faster than intended and slow down, all without detection. The result was not destroyed centrifuges but centrifuges that just didn't work right. This went on for a year without detection. Absolutely amazing how it worked to copy itself to their computers and then sabotage for a year undetected

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Wonder if there is any speculation that Israel is behind it?

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This worm was NOT done by any group of hackers, rather is was nation sponsored and quite ingenious.

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I read that there is speculation in your question.

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I mean, the Obama administration can't be behind this ... could it?

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If they are they should use that in their 2012 campaign.

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I could see his administration behind the really big stuff. Hacking Siemens machine language protocols is much smaller than hacking Gov Palins e-mail.

A friend of mine sold computer operated systems to run nuclear plants for years. Things became slow for 2 decades even tho Westinghouse has half the reactors in the world and many others copied some part of their work.

Westinghouse sold to Siemens around 10 years ago. I work with Siemens Rail as a client and not other divisions. I remember Intergraph does construction modeling software and Burns MdDonald does Operating design. I suspect Intergraph also has enterprise operating software. They are a popular provider of software solutions to many refinerios.

Want me to call some contacts on Monday?

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READ THE ARTICLE ON FOX, GENIUS, they suspect the US and Russia not israel,no hackers could do this, had to be more than one nation and someone that had intimate knowledge of siemans company.Amazing !

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Intergraph and Westinghouse are into most nuclear operations. Westinghouse was purchased by Siemens. PLC programming is old stuff for the industrial electrical industry. The only thing fancy about this was the detail under which they kept this from being detected.

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The Mac user's reaction to virus talk:

Yaaaaaawwwwnnnnnn

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Don't tell anyone. But have it on good authority Skynet is behind it.

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Mac has more holes than windows ever thought about.

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yes, but some were saying it might be a multinational endeaver

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And it's really irrelevant. MACS are insignificant. Had Iran been using MACS this would have been a MAC virus/worm

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The only reason macs dont get virus's is, there aint enough of them for the virus writers to care about, so they ignore them.

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That, plus the fact that they thought they were impentrable because they werent connected to the web . And that it wasnt told to destroy anything, just mess with it ,by changing speeds,which i suppose kept it from being detected.

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Fine with me. We're a privileged few! :razz

Yaaaaawwwwnnnnnn.

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Skynet has Kyle Reese.

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Been wondering for sometime why the Israelis hadnt bombed them like before .Obviously they had knowledge of what was happening, so instead they were technologically bombed, less mess, money and fuss.its a beautiful thing technology.

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They didn't bomb Iran, they bombed Iraq.

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like before dude ?:)