Stuxnet

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by DAII

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

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

[coadie]

Originally Posted by DAII

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

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?

[canam]

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 !

[coadie]

Originally Posted by canam

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 !

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.

[notofworks]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

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

The Mac user's reaction to virus talk:

Yaaaaaawwwwnnnnnn

[MrMasterMind]

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

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by notofworks

The Mac user's reaction to virus talk:

Yaaaaaawwwwnnnnnn

Mac has more holes than windows ever thought about.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by DAII

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

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

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by jfrog

Mac has more holes than windows ever thought about.

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

[canam]

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.