Super Virus A Target For Cyber Terrorists

TeddyTedson

You could shut down power stations, you could shut down the transport network across the United Kingdom.

I saw this on Sky News last night. They have a video of it on their website here.
Is this the beginning of the end (2012)?

The whole thing seems very similar to Die Hard 2.

admiralofthefleet

in before mr obvious

ScumLord

I decided to stick on sky news out of boredom today and saw that, it was ludacris. They where going on about this virus and an unknown enemy, they clearly said over and over again that this is basically a weapon looking for a bad guy. They went on about this vague undefinable enemy that was out to get everybody, it was almost like a sketch in a comedy show.

Craebear

Just a ploy to bring in measures to censor the internet. Same old crap. lol Freedom.

Riamfada

Shut down power stations and shut down the transport network. We got the jump on those terrorists, we are already at the brink of that anyway and we did it all by ourselves!

Im suprised Sky News didnt have a live 24 hour chopper feed to a cave mouth in Pakistan where absolultely nothing happens.

shampon

And it's Die Hard 4.0, you tit. Not 2. Christ, do they not teach anybody about classic action in school anymore. And 2012 can suck my balls along with Jim Corr.

Riamfada

shampon wrote: »

And it's Die Hard 4.0, you tit. Not 2. Christ, do they not teach anybody about classic action in school anymore. And 2012 can suck my balls along with Jim Corr.

Die Hard 2 was ****e.Now Die Hard 3,Jeremy Irons .. Id totally tap that and Im a dude! Plus the "bad guys" rolled to "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".

They were real terrorists, guns and bank jobs and hot european blondes with killer legs. None of this pansy cyber terrorism shite.

Also it had Samuel L.Jackson as the lovable african american racist. Take that conventional sterotypes! And my missus thinks they are two dimensional blow things up films.

Parsley

Grimes wrote: »

Die Hard 2 was ****

you ****ing take that back

Zillah

This is so retarded.

That virus was designed to interfere with a specific piece of equipment in a specific facility due to a known flaw in the security set up. It is therefore non-transferable. Anyone capable of understanding and modifying the virus to target a different facility would be skilled enough to make their own anyway

This is like if Bob Smith got his email account hacked because his password was "password1" and the news puts up a headline "Passwords no longer safe! Anyone's email could be vulnerable!"

Riamfada

Parsley wrote: »

you ****ing take that back

no way Ill stand by my convictions. Stupid Dennis Franz, I hate him.

bluto63

Parsley wrote: »

you ****ing take that back

The only good Die Hard was the first. The rest were all a waste of time

Riamfada

bluto63 wrote: »

The only good Die Hard was the first. The rest were all a waste of time

It did have an 80s guy and asian dad....

admiralofthefleet

bluto63 wrote: »

The only good Die Hard was the first. The rest were all a waste of time

die hard with a vengeance was the best of them all

ldxo15wus6fpgm

Threadjack in 7 posts?
Nicely done lads.
Also, all the die hards were great, except maybe 4.0

PeterIanStaker

Nothing like Swine flu Icelandic volcano Computer virus to take people's minds off the recession for a wee while.

Saila

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I saw this on Sky News last night.

it MUST be a real danger then, dont fight the fear, quick! run out and buy a €3000 laptop...and a hard hat, never can tell when the ceiling is going to fall on your head, cant be too carefull




:rolleyes:

Sheeps

according to that video the virus was coded in html and javascript

Sheeps

if you wanna beat this stuxnet virus switch to linux... problem solved

Son Of A Vidic

BREAKING NEWS! - Nothing happens.

(minutes later)

BREAKING NEWS! - Nothingness used by terrorists to increase fear of something.

Terry

ScumLord wrote: »

I decided to stick on sky news out of boredom today and saw that, it was ludacris. They where going on about this virus and an unknown enemy, they clearly said over and over again that this is basically a weapon looking for a bad guy. They went on about this vague undefinable enemy that was out to get everybody, it was almost like a sketch in a comedy show.

What does a rapper have to do with this?
Was he involved?

CreepingDeath

The stuxnet virus wasn't something knocked up by script kiddies, it was clearly targeted at the Iranian centrofuges. (for refining weapons grade uranium)

The general suspicion is that it was the US intelligence agencies who created and released it into Iran.
It was very specific, it only targeted certain Siemens microcontrollers that were manufactured in certain countries.

Mark200

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

Nothing like Swine flu Icelandic volcano Computer virus to take people's minds off the recession for a wee while.

Yeah, how dare they report on other news!

chin_grin

FIRE SALE!

Let's be honest. Who else googled that phrase to see if it was a real thing. G'wan..........Just me then? Aw.

Sheeps

Sheeps wrote: »

if you wanna beat this stuxnet virus switch to linux... problem solved

Yep cant believe Iran has nuclear power stations with windows controlling there PLC`s.

This virus spreads through windows but really infects the Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC`S), Namely Siemens ones. These PLC`s are what control the machinery.

Stuxnet can reprogram the PLC`s and avoid detection.

Apparently it was the Israelis that coded it and it was infected by Russian contractors working at the plant.

Some12

CreepingDeath wrote: »

The stuxnet virus wasn't something knocked up by script kiddies, it was clearly targeted at the Iranian centrofuges. (for refining weapons grade uranium)

The general suspicion is that it was the US intelligence agencies who created and released it into Iran.
It was very specific, it only targeted certain Siemens microcontrollers that were manufactured in certain countries.

I think there are two suspects for the source of this virus - but both in bed with each other.

The USA and/or Israel

I recall that when news first came out of this virus, Israel was listed at the source and that they may have been acting with America.

TwoShedsJackson

Never mind that, here is the official ranking of the Die Hard movies: 1>>4>>>2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>3

sbsquarepants

shampon wrote: »

And it's Die Hard 4.0, you tit. Not 2. Christ, do they not teach anybody about classic action in school anymore. And 2012 can suck my balls along with Jim Corr.

Andrea is surely the more sensible option when it comes to a good old ball sucking. No?

PandyAndy

Zillah wrote: »

This is so retarded.

That virus was designed to interfere with a specific piece of equipment in a specific facility due to a known flaw in the security set up. It is therefore non-transferable. Anyone capable of understanding and modifying the virus to target a different facility would be skilled enough to make their own anyway

surely they only need to install punkbuster to stop the wall hackers and avg...? It's not rocket science.

Captain Darling

I always preferred Lethal Weapon myself.....

ScumLord

Terry wrote: »

What does a rapper have to do with this?
Was he involved?

Is there a difference? I googled it and it was all rapper results I didn't want to dedicate any more time to the spelling so left it.

BaconZombie

SCADA system run on VERY old systems { we are talking Windows 95 at a max if not DOS?!?!}

And they should be "Air-Gapped".

Old news is old.

EDIT:

One of the flaws was a HARDCODED password that was printed in the manual and if change it would void the warrenty and support contract with Siemen.

Zillah wrote: »

This is so retarded.

That virus was designed to interfere with a specific piece of equipment in a specific facility due to a known flaw in the security set up. It is therefore non-transferable. Anyone capable of understanding and modifying the virus to target a different facility would be skilled enough to make their own anyway

This is like if Bob Smith got his email account hacked because his password was "password1" and the news puts up a headline "Passwords no longer safe! Anyone's email could be vulnerable!"

If you look at the code it was written VERY fast and patched together, and just because it has some Russian and other languages in the code does not mean it was written by somebody from that country.

This was a VERY targeted attack since the first infection was via USB key!!!
The biggest question is way did they spread to so many system?

CreepingDeath wrote: »

The stuxnet virus wasn't something knocked up by script kiddies, it was clearly targeted at the Iranian centrofuges. (for refining weapons grade uranium)

The general suspicion is that it was the US intelligence agencies who created and released it into Iran.
It was very specific, it only targeted certain Siemens microcontrollers that were manufactured in certain countries.

Lando Griffin

Captain Darling wrote: »

I always preferred Lethal Weapon myself.....

Yea, unlike all the Die Hards, all the Lathal Weapons were brilliant and full of explosive action. Die Hard and Leathal Weapon get a 10/10 from me, but each of the following Die Hards gradually go down hill to 0/10, whereas the rest of the Leathal Weapons keep scoring highly.

Capt'n Midnight

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Andrea is surely the more sensible option when it comes to a good old ball sucking. No?

Ah the old Corrs lottery

well would you ?

cypharius

"A senior IT security source said: "We have hard evidence that the virus is in the hands of bad guys – we can't say any more than that but these people are highly motivated and highly skilled with a lot of money behind them."

This sounds like a movie script written by a 9 year old.