Stuxnet Worm May Have Targeted Iranian Reactor

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @05:02AM from the stux-on-this dept.

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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Some people don't care how many others they screw by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-21 05:10 · Score: 5, Insightful

There's one non-secular country in the world that is famous for it's disregard for anyone but itself and its fundamentalist religious belief in their own specialness in the eyes of their own god, which they believe justifies their evil actions.
The truth is some evil people will do anything for wealth and power.
Re:So....the CIA wrote it? by Wyatt+Earp · 2010-09-21 05:12 · Score: 5, Insightful

Nope, Israel.
The Saudis, UAE or Qatar have strong interests in Iran not going nuclear, but military computer science stuff is going to be Israel, Russia, China or the US, my money is on Israel in this one.