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Stuxnet Worms On

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the squirmy-squirmy dept.

Numerous Stuxnet related stories continue to flow through my bin today, so brace yourself: Unsurprisingly, Iran blames Stuxnet on a plot set up by the West, designed to infect its nuclear facilities. A Symantec researcher analyzed the code and put forth attack scenarios. A Threatpost researcher writes about the sophistication of the worm. Finally, Dutch multinationals have revealed that the worm is also attacking them. We may never know what this thing was really all about.

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  1. Re:Iran should all buy Macs by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Funny

    And yet, Macs *are* capable of uploading viruses to alien ships.

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  2. We may never know? We DO know! by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one feel it's safe to assume Iran is right, that this is a nefarious plot by unnamed western nations to stop Iran's glorious peaceful nuclear power program, but that absolutely no computers controlling the nuclear program were infected. After all, Iran is completely trustworthy and it's nuclear scientists are smart enough not to use control computers to check their e-mail and click on random links from random people.

    I'm also going to assume that fake first post was part of a nefarious plot by unnamed western nations to tarnish Iran's glorious image as first posters.

  3. Re:Iran should all buy Macs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Macintosh: The Typhoid Mary of home computing"

    Yeah, I should totally be in advertising.

  4. Re:Skynet by Hardtrance · · Score: 2, Funny

    ICBM, actually.

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