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| And the cyberwarfare begins. |
| 2010-09-25 |
| Five months after the confirmation of army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander to be the head of the PentagonÂ’s new Cyber Command, it would appear that the first evidence of active cyber warfare has appeared. Ars Techica summarizes emerging consensus. Researchers have found that the highest concentration of Stuxnet infections is located in Iran. That discovery, coupled with the very high level of sophistication exhibited by the malware, has led some researchers to speculate that it was crafted by a major government body with the aim of disabling Iran's nuclear power plant. See also Iranian media reports say the country's nuclear agency is trying to combat a complex computer worm that has affected industrial sites in Iran and is capable of taking over power plants. The semi-official ISNA news agency says Iranian nuclear experts met this week to discuss how to remove the malicious computer code, dubbed Stuxnet, which can take over systems that control the inner workings of industrial plants. Experts in Germany discovered the worm in July. It has since shown up in attacks in Iran, Indonesia, India and the U.S. Friday's report said the malware had spread throughout Iran, but did not elaborate. Foreign media reports have speculated the worm was aimed at disrupting Iran's first nuclear power plant, which is to go online in October. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #10 Proc: considering that by definition script kiddies are unable to write their own code and simply run scripts written by their betters... I would say "No" to your last question. However, I agree with the overall thrust of your comment. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2010-09-25 21:10 |
| #9 ...maybe. How many hours did it take some teenager to crack the exclusivity code on the IPhone and make it an open device? Americans have a tendency to be lazy till something gets their attention which ignites their ingenuity. Nothing like the ComChi making all such an effort only to see their handiwork trumped within a days by some geeks, if they haven't already. You don't think the script kiddies haven't been poking around the firmware and circuits? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-09-25 18:37 |
| #8 Keep in mind all the infernal circuitry the USA now imports from China. The possibility of logical back doors written into firmware or burned into integrated circuits boggles my mind. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-09-25 16:55 |
| #7 Its about time we get into the game, openly. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-09-25 15:19 |
| #6 The other day Israel was getting the credit. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2010-09-25 15:02 |
| #5 "cyberwar begins"? Chinese have been engaged in it for years - ditto Russia. |
| Posted by: Percy Omavise3156 2010-09-25 14:59 |
| #4 This one is such fun, for the moment. The Iranians must be running like headless chickens, trying to figure out what the Israelis did (it must be those Juices, who else would be that clever and that devious?)... and what other Juicey traps have yet to be discovered (plus American ones -- the idea that the Baha'i might engage in such dirty tricks probably hasn't occurred to them). If they're smart they'll take everything off line, take it all apart, clean, measure, and reassemble, and rewrite all the computer code from scratch on new computers after burning the old ones. Yes, I realize this will put them considerably behind schedule, but the alternative is that it all goes kaboom one day soon, and they have to start from the very beginning, including training a new set of scientists and technicians. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-09-25 14:57 |
| #3 I doubt the source code is available anywhere. I think most of what's known about the worm is from sniffing infected test-networks to see what kind of activity it generates. P.S. Just saw Skidmark's post, that's not the application source code, just the worm's network output. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2010-09-25 12:19 |
| #2 http://www.langner.com/en/index.htm here you go Bad... |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2010-09-25 11:57 |
| #1 I'd love to see the source code. Been trying to find it. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-09-25 10:09 |