Israel's miracle weapon disclosed

[Skybird]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...778912,00.html

The two men are silent for a moment; they see things from the attacker's perspective. "The discovery of Stuxnet was a serious blow to us," one of them says. "We find it particularly upsetting, because a successful method was disclosed."

The inventors of Stuxnet apparently had many more plans for their product. Symantec has since discovered another version of the Stuxnet virus, which contains even more complex code and is designed to target modern Siemens control technology, but which had not been activated yet. Stuxnet, say the people at Symantec, "is the type of threat we hope to never see again."

That wish is unlikely to come true.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Very interesting article.

a changing world,

[the_tyrant]

thanks for the article, will be reposting now

just a bit of thought

it is generally understood that some dumb guy in the Iranian nuclear project plugged in a USB drive with stuxnet into a computer in the nuclear project's internal network

but even if that happened, the Iranians could have prevented this with better security measures.

after all, does the computer controlling the centrifuges have to be connected to the network?

even if it had to, what is it used for?
if it had a really restrictive firewall than even the 0-days can't help much