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PGT · Sep 24, 2010

cliff notes for the non-technical: a species of malware has been hitting Iran and surrounding areas since early summer. Further reverse engineering of the code shows its attacking the Siemens devices used in some of the control parts of Iran's nuclear capabilities. bottom line is that this was a highly sophisticated and coordinated attack that was made possible with insider knowledge.

Or, in layman's terms....likely no need to bomb Iran now. High five _________ (insert three letter agency here). This is a major coup if true.

Justa Jim · Sep 24, 2010

PGT said: ↑

cliff notes for the non-technical: a species of malware has been hitting Iran and surrounding areas since early summer. Further reverse engineering of the code shows its attacking the Siemens devices used in some of the control parts of Iran's nuclear capabilities. bottom line is that this was a highly sophisticated and coordinated attack that was made possible with insider knowledge.

Or, in layman's terms....likely no need to bomb Iran now. High five _________ (insert three letter agency here). This is a major coup if true.
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Very interesting. I don't think I am smart enough to be in the military today. When I was in, it is simply point, shoot and duck. :nonod:

Jim

ScottinBend · Sep 25, 2010

jbewley said: ↑

Very interesting. I don't think I am smart enough to be in the military today. When I was in, it is simply point, shoot and duck. :nonod:

Jim
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How true, but I do like where this is heading !

Justa Jim · Sep 25, 2010

ScottinBend said: ↑

How true, but I do like where this is heading !
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I am with you an that Scott. Very slick indeed.

Jim

minimark · Sep 25, 2010

Love it!!!!

Now if they could invent and introduce a worm that would slowly devour his rectal cavity from the inside out, we'd really be in business....

Justa Jim · Sep 25, 2010

minimark said: ↑

Love it!!!!

Now if they could invent and introduce a worm that would slowly devour his rectal cavity from the inside out, we'd really be in business....
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Jim

PGT · Sep 26, 2010

minimark said: ↑

Love it!!!!

Now if they could invent and introduce a worm that would slowly devour his rectal cavity from the inside out, we'd really be in business....
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ut:

he's a figurehead....the real danger is the mullahs.

minimark · Sep 26, 2010

No sweat, the rectal worm should work for them too!!

But you are correct they hold the real power.....

Nathan · Sep 30, 2010

So the Israeli's did it...

Computer experts have discovered a biblical reference embedded in the code of the computer worm that has pointed to Israel as the origin of the cyber attack.

The code contains the word "myrtus", which is the Latin biological term for the myrtle tree. The Hebrew word for myrtle, Hadassah, was the birth name of Esther, the Jewish queen of Persia.

In the Hebrew Bible, The Book of Ester tells how the queen pre-empted an attack on the country's Jewish population and then persuaded her husband to launch an attack before being attacked themselves.

Israel has threatened to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran's facilities to ensure that the Islamic state does not gain the ability to threaten its existence.

Ralf Langner, a German researcher, claims that Unit 8200, the signals intelligence arm of the Israeli defence forces, perpetrated the computer virus attack by infiltrating the software into the Bushehr nuclear power station

Mr Langer said: "If you read the Bible you can make a guess."

Computer experts have spent months tracing the origin of the Stuxnet worm, a sophisticated piece of malicious software, or malware, that has infected industrial operating systems made by the German firm Siemens across the globe.

Programmers following Stuxnet believe it was most likely introduced to Iran on a memory stick, possibly by one of the Russian firms helping to build Bushehr. The same firm has projects in Asia, including India and Indonesia which were also attacked. Iran is thought to have suffered 60 per cent of the attacks.

Mr Langner said: "It would be an absolute no-brainer to leave an infected USB stick near one of these guys and there would be more than a 50 per cent chance of him pick it up and infect his computer."

Cyber security experts said that Israel was the most likely perpetrator of the attack and had been targeting Iran but that it had not acknowledged a role to its allies.

"Nobody is willing to accept responsibility for this particular piece of malicious software which is a curious, complex and powerful weapon," said one Whitehall expert.

The Iranian authorities acknowledged the worm had struck Bushehr and a statement conceded that the plant would come into operation in January, two months later than planned.

Elizabeth Katina, a researcher at the Royal United Services Institute, said the possibility of a copycat attack on British or American electricity networks or water supplies had been elevated by the release of Stuxnet.

"Critical national infrastructure is at greater risk because this shows groups on the outside of governments how to do it," she said. "It's more likely now that the northeast of England power grid can be shut down until someone decides to start it up again."
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PGT · Sep 30, 2010

<looks around> ehhh.....not quite. not alone, anyways.

yellowbritishrocket · Oct 5, 2010

kinda makes sense...with the amount of people and resources it would take to create this nasty little bug im sure this was a contingency plan for israel if they couldnt attack it physically...or the threat of physical attack was a ruse to get them looking in one direction...one of the basics of a network penetration attack...have ur target looking one way while you bring the real threat in another...plus the fact they cant figure out a way to get rid of it says it might have logic bomb properties since it goes after the hardware as well...wouldnt that be great...the malware goes live and slaves control of the nuclear facilities to the originators of the malware

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