Iran falls Victim To Cyber Worm

old_aussie

Good on you Siemens.

TEHRAN, (AP) — Iran's nuclear agency is trying to combat a complex computer worm that has affected industrial sites throughout the country and is capable of taking over power plants, Iranian media reports said.

Experts from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran met this week to discuss how to remove the malicious computer code, or worm, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Friday.

The computer worm, dubbed Stuxnet, can take over systems that control the inner workings of industrial plants. Experts in Germany discovered the worm in July, and it has since shown up in a number of attacks — primarily in Iran, Indonesia, India and the U.S.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/sns-ap-ml-iran-cyber-attacks,0,5536479.story

I think the main idea would be to take over rogue states nuclear complexes.

Pdfile

hmmm will i have to go get an std test now or does norton just wanna feel me up ?? :rolleyes:

questionmark?

Pdfile wrote: »

hmmm will i have to go get an std test now or does norton just wanna feel me up ?? :rolleyes:

Ya cause that reply makes loads of sense!

old_aussie

Cyber security experts have warned that Iran's nuclear program might be the possible target of a destructive cyber worm, which is powerful enough to bring down whole industrial installations.

Experts said that 'Stuxnet' has been a dangerous cyber worm since being first identified in June.

They claim that the worm has the capability to take over a computing system via nothing more than a rogue memory stick, and its potential targets include Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant.

An analysis produced by Microsoft in July had also pinpointed Iran as the epicentre of the global infection map.

The big bang is near.....

By writing code to the PLC, Stuxnet can potentially control or alter how the system operates. A previous historic example includes a reported case of stolen code that impacted a pipeline. Code was secretly “Trojanized” to function properly and only some time after installation instruct the host system to increase the pipeline's pressure beyond its capacity. This resulted in a three kiloton explosion, about 1/5 the size of the Hiroshima bomb.

Pdfile

questionmark? wrote: »

Ya cause that reply makes loads of sense!

its all over the world but the OP names iran mainly.

if it can spread their it will here ( swine flu loike... )

you can never be too precausious...

old_aussie

Pdfile wrote: »

hmmm will i have to go get an std test now or does norton just wanna feel me up ?? :rolleyes:

I think you will be safe.... unless you get a request from someone to stick a memory stick up your arse.:D

old_aussie

Pdfile wrote: »

its all over the world but the OP names iran mainly.

An analysis produced by Microsoft in July had also pinpointed Iran as the epicentre of the global infection map.

IvySlayer

Did they try a system restore?

Pdfile

IvySlayer wrote: »

Did they try a system restore?

press alt + F4 for cookies... it always works !

Manic Moran

I was reading in the paper a week or two ago that this worm is considered to be the beginning of a new era in warfare: A cyber-attack which is intended to result in physical destruction.

NTM

ArseLtd

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

starbelgrade

My cat has worms.

laugh

Copyright CIA 2010

galwayrush

The nut case running the country will probably blame the Israelis:rolleyes:

Kasabian

galwayrush wrote: »

The nut case running the country will probably blame the Israelis:rolleyes:

leave Cowen out of it. I know for a fact he doesn.t have a computer.


Or a calculator


:pac:

Predator_

galwayrush wrote: »

The nut case running the country will probably blame the Israelis:rolleyes:

Yeah because that would be unthinkable:rolleyes:
Pathetic support for cyber terrorism.

zom

Guys from Kaspersky state that Stuxnet is active since... July 2009, and might be that it already got it's goals. So it's too late, and we can now remove it and fix systems and so, whatever...

Star Bingo

The Iron Sheik will put that cabrone worm in a camel clutch, problem solved

Overheal

Manic Moran wrote: »

I was reading in the paper a week or two ago that this worm is considered to be the beginning of a new era in warfare: A cyber-attack which is intended to result in physical destruction.

NTM

And yet its not a new phenomena, or the first time a remote computer has taken command of the power grid through hacking.

Once such article I read earlier in the year talked about one experiment they carried out at a hydro-electric whereby a hacker was able to exploit a low-level command to burn out one of the turbines.

If SmartGrid is inevitable, it's going to require a complete re-think of cyber-security.

holystungun9

did ya try rubbin' it ?

CreepingDeath

laugh wrote: »

Copyright CIA 2010

Yeah, the excellent computer security podcast "Security Now" said that the Stuxnet worm had been analysed and was very sophisticated and targeted industrial microprocessors.

Security analysts believe it could only have been created by a nation state.
That typical malware creators couldn't do anything this complex.

Cianos

Have they tried turning it off and on again?

Celly Smunt

tut all they have to do is delete system32 :rolleyes:

AnonoBoy

Simple solution is turn off them damn computers.

They should just leave all this thinking where it belongs - in the brains of the eggheads in city hall with their papers and pencils and their thinkin' and a-figurin' and their fussin' and a-feudin'.