Malware Will Change the Face of Warfare

[Sasha]

Malware Will Change the Face of Warfare
Tech News Daily
September 28, 2010 - The recent targeting of an Iranian nuclear power plant by a dangerous computer worm hints at how "cyber weapons" could change the face of future warfare, according to one security expert.

See: STUXNET

Photo: courtesy Kaspersky Lab

Related: UN Telecom Boss Warns of Pending Cyberwar


Stuxnet Malware Targeting SCADA Systems

Photo: TrendMicro Systems

[Craig W]

What are the odds that a false flag cyber-attack closes down the Internet?

I smell something cooking...

[Sasha]

I would have to agree with you.

Add this to the most recent set of prefab lies packaged as Terror Alerts (media whores here in Canada have been going on about US/UK info on an imminent threat-but nothing concrete or tantgible that we can let out of the bag, no pics, no names, cities, methodology, no nada on and on - just a headline for y'all). Canadian media is touting the same line.

When they engineer products from the factory to be digital receivers of encrypted code for nefarius purposes at a later date you know it's time for a new deck.

Specifically targeting Siemens industrial control systems is a major security breach for the company or there was complicity by Siemen's employees.

Illustrates the availability to certain tools that allow for total technical/situational control over an op by the gov/organised crime. People should pay closer attention to this group's accessibility to technology and question their intentions.

Why can the gov have tech 10 yrs before society? Why is that accepted?

[Sasha]

Stuxnet 'cyber superweapon' moves to China
AFP
October 1, 2010 - The Stuxnet computer virus, dubbed the world’s “first cyber superweapon” by experts, and which may have been designed to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, has found a new target: China. The computer worm has infecting millions of computers around the country, Chinese state media reported this week.

Stuxnet hits India
Hindustan Times
October 4, 2010 - It’s being described as the new cyber WMD and may have crippled an Iranian nuclear plant, but one cybersecurity company has estimated that the worm, Stuxnet, may have its largest footprint in India. Another expert has put forward a conjecture that the failure of the INSAT 4B satellite this summer may have been due to this cyber superweapon.

Stuxnet is no big deal, ESET chief says
Daily News & Economic Review
October 6, 2010 - A recently discovered cyber virus known as “Stuxnet” only made waves in the media as experts were able to quickly thwart the risk, according to the Europe, Middle East, and Africa sales manager of antivirus software company ESET.

Why did Stuxnet worm spread?
Computerworld
October , 2010 - Stuxnet's inability to stay stealthy may be fall-out from a failure to hit its intended targets last year, security researchers said today. The worm, which was designed to infiltrate heavy-duty industrial control programs that monitor and manage factories, oil pipelines, power plants and other critical installations, only popped onto researchers' radars this summer, nearly a year after it was likely first launched.