• 'Nuclear virus' targets uncovered
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-12465688[/url]
Interesting. Cyber-Terrorism is here.
[QUOTE=Theorisable;28068726]Interesting. Cyber-Terrorism is here.[/QUOTE] The much more common term is Electronic Warfare.
[QUOTE=Thomo;28070509]Sounds like some weird movie plot staring nicolas cage.[/QUOTE] Sure hope it includes him going batshit crazy like always.
Use *nix!
Didn't Israel say that they'd take down Iran's nuclear facilities if the US wouldn't do it?
Be Thankful its not Skynet.
[QUOTE=koekje4life V2;28075883]Didn't Israel say that they'd take down Iran's nuclear facilities if the US wouldn't do it?[/QUOTE] And thats a bad thing?
[quote]"could lead to a new Chernobyl," referring to the 1986 nuclear accident.[/quote] That last part seemed kinda redundant.
And this is why you don't link your major station's internal networks to external networks.
[QUOTE=certified;28078126]And this is why you don't link your major station's internal networks to external networks.[/QUOTE] Read the article? They weren't, the network had to be infected by USB.
[QUOTE=Shwig;28076144]And thats a bad thing?[/QUOTE] Yes.
It's pretty scary to imagine how a malicious piece of code can potentially turn a city into a ghost town by causing damages by messing with the uranium enrichment centrifuges.
People involved in the nuclear project have been outright assasinated. Now this. Either the Americans or Israel this time.
Why the computers that can actually cause a meltdown are connected to the outside is just stupid in my mind.
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;28076151]That last part seemed kinda redundant.[/QUOTE] Not really it's just to clarify what happened just if the person reading it hadn't been taught history or had been in a coma for 20 odd years. [QUOTE=Crimor;28085068]Why the computers that can actually cause a meltdown are connected to the outside is just stupid in my mind.[/QUOTE] So they can watch any riots live on youtube!
[QUOTE=Crimor;28085068]Why the computers that can actually cause a meltdown are connected to the outside is just stupid in my mind.[/QUOTE] [quote]Analysis of the different strains and the time it took between the code being written and it making its first infection suggested that the virus writers had "infiltrated" targeted organisations, she said. The researchers drew this conclusion because Stuxnet targeted industrial systems not usually connected to the internet for security reasons. Instead, it infects Windows machines via USB keys - commonly used to move files around and usually plugged into a computer manually. The virus therefore had to be seeded on to the organisation's internal networks by someone, either deliberately or accidentally. The virus could have been spread between the organisations by contractors that worked for more than one of them, she said.[/quote] Read the article, please?
[QUOTE=scout1;28085132]Read the article, please?[/QUOTE] Let me get this straight, they use usb sticks, one of the most common ways for viruses to get transfered, in a high security area, without taking measures to make sure it's clean?
[QUOTE=Crimor;28085156]Let me get this straight, they use usb sticks, one of the most common ways for viruses to get transfered, in a high security area, without taking measures to make sure it's clean?[/QUOTE] The bosses probably keep their porn on USB sticks and don't want to ban them.
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