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09-25-2010, 07:25 PM | #1 | ||||
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Malware hits industrial equipment
I'm posting this article about "malware" because experts are saying it was authored by a government, not some kid working in his basement.
BITS article September 24, 2010, 8:41 pm Malware Hits Computerized Industrial Equipment By RIVA RICHMOND Quote:
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09-25-2010, 08:36 PM | #2 |
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Oh, now I feel bad. No wonder Iran's leader has to lie about everything. He's got a virus!
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09-25-2010, 08:36 PM | #3 |
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Their speculating it's a nation state. It's using several previously unknown holes in windows. It migrates to computers that don't connect to the web. It's not just Iran, India, Malaysia and eastern Europe too. It does no harm unless it finds specific industrial controls, like the unauthorized Siemens controls, Russia sold to Iran.
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So maybe it was made and released by Siemens? You hack us, we hack you back? Or are the machines about to take over for real?
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09-26-2010, 12:59 AM | #5 |
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I'd bet on China.
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09-26-2010, 01:26 PM | #6 |
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09-26-2010, 04:53 PM | #7 |
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A quick glance at politics and the application of Occam's razor says US or Israel. If it really is a State.
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09-26-2010, 08:16 PM | #8 |
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Israel was my first thought, but energy hungry China has a big stake in keeping the middle east from blowing up, and an increasing investment in Africa, Greece and around the Mediterranean. It's a crap shoot at this point.
The thing that got me was other countries found it easy to remove with commercially available anti-virus programs. Does the UN embargo on Iran include Norton?
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09-26-2010, 01:10 AM | #9 |
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Didn't that happen at 2:14am on August 29, 1997?
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09-26-2010, 01:46 AM | #10 |
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Very "Ghost in the Shell" . . . (btw, a 15 year-old film)
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09-26-2010, 01:30 PM | #11 |
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IEEE Spectrum reported on the (suspected) complete compromise of the entire Greek telephone system. Hacking was that widespread and that serious a national security issue. The article did not even try to suggest who might have done it. List all the usual suspects.
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09-26-2010, 02:06 PM | #12 | |
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From the NY Times of 25 Sept 2010:
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09-27-2010, 09:33 PM | #14 |
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Depends on if we have help with that strike ...
Aliens have deactivated British and US nuclear missiles
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09-28-2010, 12:15 AM | #15 |
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Running off half cocked again.
sexobon's "surgical strike was referring to using this dedicated worm/virus to ferret out how much Siemens' equipment they have, and how it's distributed. We already know what type of processes use which Siemens' gear and software.
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