[ncfool]

GOD BLESS THE MOSSAD!

Pods on wiki-leaks for telling on Israel.

[ncfool]

GOD BLESS THE MOSSAD!

Piss on wiki-leaks for telling on Israel.

[Uri’el-2012]

Microsoft system 7 is crap code.

[Figment]

Must have been Israel that planted this bug. If it had been done by us, why didn’t we give it to North Korea too?

[coloradan]

... and the first best story ever told is ... ?

[wildbill]

If you go to the Sky News video, you come away with the idea that this technology is aimed at the West and we are so far behind the curve that we have already lost the Cyberwar of the future because we are so far behind.

To the contrary, I believe this shows the world just how far in advance the West is in cyberwarfare—and the glimpse that the mystery hackers allowed the rest of the world to see was specifically meant to demonstrate our lead as a warning.

At least I hope so.

[ottbmare]

I don’t know much about this stuff, but I wonder if the thing could be like certain trojans: you think you’ve gotten rid of them, you wipe the hard drive and reinstall everything, and six months or six weeks later the damn thing is back.

[ThunderSleeps]

(d) The procedures and restrictions they'll put in place to ensure they don't get hit by something similar will be as crippling (or more) to the efficiency of the operation. That is, it was always intended to be found, and freak them out.

This is a classic rock and a hard place problem. Clamp down tight, kill efficiencies. Don't clamp down and get hit again...

[Dan Cooper]

Clulely told that Guardian that Siemens has “astonishingly” advised power plants and manufacturing facilities not to change the default password that allows access to functions, despite it being exploited by Stuxnet and being “public knowledge on the web for years”.

I can’t imagine why they’d do that unless Siemens itself is part of this or is under heavy pressure from the German government to cooperate.

The password in question is the database access password use by the SCADA software. It cannot be changed without a software update apparently. Just bad design, not nefarious pressure. From Siemens' website:

The user login and the password for WinCC are freely definable and have nothing to do with access to the internal database. The internal system authentication from WinCC to the Microsoft SQL database is based on pre-defined access data. This data is not visible for the customer and is used as an internal system mechanism for communication between the WinCC system components and the database. Changing the access data would impede communication between WinCC and the database and is therefore not recommended. Tightening up authentication procedures is being examined.

The other thing about this article that I think is wrong is that the certificate stolen from Realtek would have been used to sign software executables to hide them from Windows and from scanning software by making it look like a legitimate driver or application from Realtek.

[InMemoriam]

maybe the centrifuges at Natanz are in much worse shape than anyone (except the programmers) knows.

I am not a nuclear physicist, but since centrifuge cascades are in series, not parallel, I would think that ALL of the centrifuges would have to work correctly at the same time, requiring very high reliability.

Would you want to reuse centrifuges that had been monkeyed with by Stuxnet in series with known good centrifuges?

It just keeps getting better. Are you feeling lucky, Mahmoud?

[garjog]

OK. Now we know why we didn’t attack Iran. We didn’t need to with this weapon in the works.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks txhurl!

Oh, that big 1982 Siberian explosion? [William Safire]
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