Posted by Tina
Without firing a shot someone has created havoc and put a temporary stop on Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions. The intruder makes for fascinating reading:
Intelligence agencies, computer security companies and the nuclear industry have been trying to analyze the worm since it was discovered in June by a Belarus-based company that was doing business in Iran. And what they’ve all found, says Sean McGurk, the Homeland Security Department’s acting director of national cyber security and communications integration, is a “game changer.”
The construction of the worm was so advanced, it was “like the arrival of an F-35 into a World War I battlefield,” says Ralph Langner, the computer expert who was the first to sound the alarm about Stuxnet. Others have called it the first “weaponized” computer virus.
Simply put, Stuxnet is an incredibly advanced, undetectable computer worm that took years to construct and was designed to jump from computer to computer until it found the specific, protected control system that it aimed to destroy: Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.
Now, who do you suppose had the chuzpah to do this?
Re: Now, who do you suppose had the chuzpah to do this?
There has been a lot of speculation on that. Evidently some parts of the code are quite sophisticated and some parts are not.
Whoever wrote it had intimate knowledge of specific manufacturer’s programmable logic controllers.
According to Tom Parker of Securicon Stuxnet is not as quite the clever and advanced high tech malware Ralph Langner thinks it is.
“Code clues point to Stuxnet maker”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11795076
We may never know who did it, but he is a much better candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize than the ones we have seen lately.
I think it’s pretty obvious who did it, the guy who created the internet, Al Gore of course.
Not Gore. He is more likely to be the guy who gave the secret documents to Wikileaks.
Yep, you’re probably right. Speaking of Wikileaks we’re supposed to have the biggest release tomorrow. Wonder if they will or if Obama’s threat will mean anything?
I just tried to use the links at Wikileaks and they are all down. I think somebody pulled the plug on them.
Re Soaps: “We may never know who did it, but he is a much better candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize than the ones we have seen lately.”
Except for Liu Xiaobo (2010) and Martti Ahtisaari (2008) I heartily agree. (It could be that the Nobel Peace Prize committee is trying to lose their status as a pathetic and bad political joke with the Liu Xiaobo award.)
Soaps: “We may never know who did it, but he is a much better candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize…”
Absolutely! This made me feel a little better about efforts in the fight against both terrorists and Rogue regimes!