Stuxnet Worm May Have Targeted Iranian Reactor

yuna49 writes "Analysis of the Stuxnet worm suggests its target might have been Iran's nuclear program. "Last week Ralph Langner, a well-respected expert on industrial systems security, published an analysis of the Stuxnet worm, which targets Siemens software systems, and suggested that it may have been used to sabotage Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor. A Siemens expert, Langner simulated a Siemens industrial network and then analyzed the worm's attack. Experts had first thought that Stuxnet was written to steal industrial secrets, but Langner found something quite different. The worm actually looks for very specific Siemens settings — a kind of fingerprint that tells it that it has been installed on a very specific Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) device — and then it injects its own code into that system."

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Re:So....the CIA wrote it?

[Beardo the Bearded]

Iran isn't a bad guy for wanting to use atomic power. Hell, the Americans haven't done a damned thing with it for YEARS. They're building coal plants, FFS. Every time you start to bring up using atomics, people shit a brick and bring up 3-mile and Chernobyl, which is roughly the same as bringing up the Hindenburg when talking about H2 or How Thag Died when talking about using fire.

Yeah, you've got a idealogical lunatic running the country (I think we've heard that joke before) but he'd be gone by now if the mass media didn't think that MJ's funeral was more important than protestors being gunned down by the Iranian goverment.

Seriously, wanting to persue peaceful nuclear power isn't an issue. Hell, if they wanted warheads they could just BUY them.

Although I do find it amusing the saying "lives by the sword, dies by the sword" still applies when talking about software attacks.