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This is the end of all our beginnings
25-09-2010 11:34 AM
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Re: This is the end of all our beginnings
25-09-2010 11:38 AM
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Do you mean this one http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/top-stories/500880/stuxnet-is-fearsome-cyber-weapon
Re: This is the end of all our beginnings
25-09-2010 11:41 AM
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yes
Re: This is the end of all our beginnings
25-09-2010 11:52 AM
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Oldjim do you think this virus will replace bombs and enable rogue states to attack the west?
Re: This is the end of all our beginnings
25-09-2010 12:07 PM
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Nope
It will be in addition to the existing methods.
What it will do is make these plants look into their system security including banning all mobile data storage devices such as USB sticks and ensuring that the systems won't allow them to be used
It will be in addition to the existing methods.
What it will do is make these plants look into their system security including banning all mobile data storage devices such as USB sticks and ensuring that the systems won't allow them to be used
Re: This is the end of all our beginnings
25-09-2010 12:08 PM
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phew wipes brow says txs to oldjim
Re: This is the end of all our beginnings
25-09-2010 5:08 PM
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Quote Stuxnet works by exploiting previously unknown security holes in Microsoft's Windows operating system. It then seeks out a component called Simatic WinCC, manufactured by Siemens, which controls critical factory operations. The malware even uses a stolen cryptographic key belonging to the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer RealTek to validate itself in high-security factory systems.
The worm then takes over the computer running the factory process – which for WinCC would be "mission-critical" systems which have to keep functioning under any circumstance – and "blocks" it for up to a tenth of a second. For high-speed systems, such as the centrifuges used for nuclear fuel processing being done by Iran, that could be disastrous, experts suggested.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/sep/24/stuxnet-worm-national-agency
Seems that using Windows in a "mission-critical" application is stupid.
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