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New virus hints at state sponsored programmers
Jerusalem Post ^
| 28/05/2012
| YAAKOV LAPPIN
Posted on 05/28/2012 11:04:10 PM PDT by Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
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To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
The problem with these computer viruses, is that they go in all directions, and cannot be contained.
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posted on
05/28/2012 11:13:47 PM PDT
by
BlackVeil
To: BlackVeil
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
Looks like it’s working correctly.
To: BlackVeil
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posted on
05/28/2012 11:46:43 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today.)
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
It’s going to be only a matter of time before one of these Islamoterrorist state sponsored hacking houses is infiltrated and busted.
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posted on
05/29/2012 12:08:22 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Let me ABOs run loose Lou!)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Errrr.......Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........
Nevermind............
To: All
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posted on
05/29/2012 12:31:54 AM PDT
by
Cindy
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
What’s so special about Jordan and Iraq on that map? Maybe Turkey too, but those too look kind of weird all surrounded like that
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
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posted on
05/29/2012 1:14:41 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
("It's easy to make promises you can't keep" - B.H.Obama Feb 23, 2012)
To: BlackVeil
The problem with these computer viruses, is that they go in all directions, and cannot be contained. Actually, it's not hard for the writers to contain viruses like this in the targeted area. Think about it.
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:27:46 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(“A boy becomes a man when a man is needed.” - John Steinbeck)
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Salo; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; ...
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:31:48 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Salo; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; ...
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posted on
05/29/2012 3:32:38 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: BlackVeil
So you’re saying that a virus designed to target specific systems cannot be contained outside of those systems?
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posted on
05/29/2012 4:15:16 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Moose Burger
How widely are computers used in any of these countries?
To: Pollster1; BlackVeil; Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
Actually, it's not hard for the writers to contain viruses like this in the targeted area. Think about it. If this is like the STUX NET virus the theory is that the virus was (initially) spread by a Siemens Technician servicing Programmable Logic Controllers with the virus loaded on a thumb drive.
This would isolate the virus to one or a few techs who service computers in that part of the world until the virus breaks out of these (generally) stand alone computers.
The other thing to note is that these viruses are written to attack industrial control systems of a particular type (Siemens) so the damage they will do is limited by their design.
The Stux Net virus was specifically written to cause the Uranium Enrichment centrifuges to over speed and destroy themselves.
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05/29/2012 5:06:09 AM PDT
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Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: scrabblehack
To: Cindy
In the old days we’d have a problem with a Moscow-based Lab having control of this kind of stuff. If Kaspersky wasn’t totally ethical they could take this virus - change a few lines of code (or more) - and switch targets... Not that they would do that...
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posted on
05/29/2012 7:45:46 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
To: Pontiac
The Stux Net virus was specifically written to cause the Uranium Enrichment centrifuges to over speed and destroy themselves. How hard would it be to tweek that virus so it would go after American Uranium Enrichment centrifuges? The tough part of the code has already written...
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posted on
05/29/2012 7:50:37 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
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posted on
05/29/2012 8:12:57 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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