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Iran Says It Has Detected Second Cyber Attack
fysdt writes "Iran has been targeted by a second computer virus in a 'cyber war' waged by its enemies, its commander of civil defense said on Monday. Gholamreza Jalali told the semi-official Mehr news agency that the new virus, called 'Stars,' was being investigated by experts."
Eat it, bitches.
This makes sense that they would notice such a thing in iran around this time. If i did the math right it should be about 6 pm which is around the start of twilight/dusk meaning...STARS are just appearing in the sky and thus able to spotted during their attacks. I feel as the night presses on the attacks will only get stronger. We have two choices to fight back against these attacks. Either put up more streetlights and fight with light pollution or we can just hold our ground till sunrise which will cause this enemy to retreat in to the oblivion that is background light. Either way we must stand up and fight against these tiny attackers.
...I am not sure I can feel that sorry for the Iranian government.
I *do* feel very sorry for Iran's people, though...
"Fortunately, our young experts have been able to discover this virus and the Stars virus is now in the laboratory for more investigations," Jalali was quoted as saying. He did not specify the target of Stars or its intended impact. "The particular characteristics of the Stars virus have been discovered," Jalali said. "The virus is congruous and harmonious with the (computer) system and in the initial phase it does minor damage and might be mistaken for some executive files of government organisations."
The information provided in the Reuters article is total crap, and some propagandist thinks that the name "Stars" is subtle. Good thing you have all those young experts, Gholamreza Jalali! Otherwise some might mistake the Stars virus (which does minor damage) for some executive files of government organisations! Gee, the Israelis and Americans sure are cyber-stupid to try the same cyber-thing twice on you guys! You're so clever!
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Ahmadinejad is just upset the Playstation Network is still down.
Hey Iran. I got a better virus for you.
STARS!!!!!
Really, sometimes these guys are too easy...
Was that your server I attacked? I'm sorry.
I thought it was the Dancing with the Stars host.
(Must remember not to drink and hack.)
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Hey, Iran, maybe you shouldn't be replying to those Nigerian scam emails instead of blaming it on your enemies. Just sayin'.
... taken down.
I'm not a hacker by inclination (or ability!) and I normally look dimly upon vigilantees who take it upon themselves to bring about "justice". But in this case I'm happy to see the Iranian nuclear program stalled through almost any means possible; to imagine their president Ahmadinejad having a nuke is almost as bad as imaging the Taliban/Al Qaeda having one! I mean, really who would benefit from Iran getting a bomb? I'm not sure even the Iranians (ultimately) would!
If only the dear leader had been tricked into buying Siemens industrial control systems for his centrifuges. (I guess the problem with having sanctions against North Korea for so long is that they were forced to develop all of their own technologies).
Good.
I left it to the excerice for the reader to decide what is good:
A. that at least some kind of war is being fought on Iran
B. that it's viruses instead of bombs that are being delivered to Iran
C. that Iran discovered the virus before it did damage
D. that Iran is fighting it's own propaganda war by these false claims
E. your own choice, explain below
The Shah, for all the domestic failings he may or may not have had, oversaw a prosperous, pluralistic nation which was a good international neighbor and not consumed by hatred for scapegoats. Iran did not participate in either the War of Israeli Independence, Sinai War, Six Day War, or the Yom Kippur War.
The Ayatollah appealed to the basest instincts and transformed a nation with a rich history into a one dimensional den of hatred and troublemaking.
Before and after, the majority were muslim, but the "after" brand is unrecognizable compared to the "before."
I knew that Iran was in league with some shady characters, but the Umbrella Corporation? What the hell are they thinking?!
I, for one, am glad that STARS is already on the scene, protecting us from Wesker and Ahmadinejad's zombie outbreak.
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I could imagine just now a lot of very nationalistic teenagers stuiding software technologies with fruction. To make any teenager into a hacker, you only need to put him a goal. A good goal create good hackers. Defending your country seems a rather awesome goal, so this will create better IT hackers in Iran. I don't know what is the short term goal, but the long term result will be making Iran much stronger in cyberwars thingies.
On the other hand, hackers are a double edge sword...
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Common, you mid east countries, is it real real bad that usa invades you, takes over, runs your country and sets it up to be all good and powerful.?
Id be sending a big invite.
It would take 100 years of normal progress to equal 15 of a usa invasion.
Who cares if giant corporates setup shop and make trillions in profits.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
Perhaps they should stop the genocidal grandstanding about wiping Israel off the face of the earth?
Genocidal rhetoric + nuclear program == preemptive strike.
if only I had known, I would have been a watchmaker.
The Shah, for all the domestic failings he may or may not have had, oversaw a prosperous, pluralistic nation
It was also a very liberal nation - perhaps the most liberal nation in the Islamic world - where women did not have to wear anything on their heads and could be seen in miniskirts and high heels.
Religious minorities such as Zoroastrians and Baha'i were'nt oppressed and Christians and Jews could marry who the fuck they wanted.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
As in, to keep from having to explain his holiness why they are having such a hard time with peaceful nuclear work it is useful to have a bogeyman. An Israeli / American bogeyman.
Figure if they run out of viruses then they can start on physical sabotage.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
They also had a secret police that brutally repressed any dissent. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK. The Shah came to power when the CIA overthrew the democratically elected President Mossadegh. So there's that too.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
My mother who grew up in Tehran went to school, drove a Benz and who's mother ran the grocery store that my parents owned. Then the Shah was overthrown and my entire family (aunts/uncles/cousins etc) left for the US. The Ayatolla regressed 100 years of progress.
An interesting pictorial:
Photographs of students at Cairo University. Pay special attention to the hairstyles/headdress that the women in the pictures have. In the first pictures, you could mistake this photo for any university in the mid 50s. While in 2004, you'd never confuse this for some university in the middle of Oklahoma.
"My God, it's full of Stars!"
Iran has been at war with Israel since the fall of the Shah. It supplies, arms, trains and to some degree directs Israel's most effective enemy Hamas/Hezbollah. A targeted electronic weapon which slows down the progress of the Persian nuclear program is mild compared to Jerusalem's other alternatives.
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Seems like we here in the US would suffer a lot more than Iran from cyber-terrorism.. While it may feel good today to digitally attack them, I fear that the eventual reprisals might be much worse than what we are simply stalling.
Yeah mainly suppressing the radical fucks causing all the problems in the middle east today. Now look at the results. And the CIA had a lot of help in getting the Shah into power starting with the British who were the ones getting screwed by the nationalization of their oil assets and the substantial amount of IRANIAN politicians themselves who wanted a new government. The CIA did not over throw anybody, at most they spread a little money around and promised future help to those IRANIAN's who wanted control of their government. In 1953 the US and CIA was not the global powerhouse super spies and troublemakers of today. The US was focused on the little problem in Korea at the time and the entire middle east had been British territory who were in the midst of losing their influence after WW2 and did not like having their assets nationalized. They even blockaded the Iranian ports in an effort to weaken the government the CIA supposedly overthrew all by themselves.
It makes you think about how much of the unrest in the world today can be traced back to Jimmy Carter's horrid leadership during that crisis. If he had backed the Shah, how would the mideast be different today? Perhaps no Mujahideen , no al queda, no taliban...
Keep hitting them. We need to stop the nukes long enough for sanctions to take out their government. As it is, common ppl in Iran are getting VERY irate with their government since they are spending more on helping Venezuela, AQ, etc than they are on improving their local economy. With oil sales in the crapper, Iran's tanks are FULL. And Iraq is replacing all of the Iranian oil. Of course, it is highly likely that we will see loads of attacks on Iraq and possible saudi arabian oil fields in an attempt to stop them from making up the difference.
Regardless, this is a waiting out game.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
to be a bunch of pro-American hypocrites. If China, Russia, or Iran were doing this to the Americans, you guys would be advocating wiping them off the face of the earth. It's like a sports match. You get all sanctimonious and angry when the other team does it, but when your team does the same thing, it's all good and fine and justified because the other side is a bunch of evil commies, Islamists, or whatever boogeyman you have this year.
Before Carter, believe it or not, the US had military posts in Iran.
Carter was well meaning, but he should have kept the Shah propped up, and not pulled the US out of Iran (they were in Iran at behest of the Iranian government, not because they were occupying the country in any way.) Of course, the Revolutionaries won two decisive victories when Carter let the Shah fell. They betrayed Carter, and were able to keep their power by the anti-Shah propaganda. No, the Shah was not perfect; he was a dictator, but comparing the lesser of the two evils, at least he wanted a secular, modern country that could compete economically in the world arena.
Even worse? The revolutionaries executed all the Iranian generals. Guess what happens next? Saddam from next door decides that due to that fact, he is going to take a chunk of Iran. Big mistake. Even with Iran sans any generals of experience, the Iranian people were the ones that kept the invaders out by sheer will and sacrificing their children.
It is sad though. I can picture an Iran with the Shah in power. The Middle East likely would be a lot better off.
Carter probably was the second worst president in recent memory of the US. He put a (pretty much) permanent moratorium on new nuclear reactors, and nixed breeder reactors. From his actions, he pretty much ensured Big Oil and Big Coal would forever be the energy kings of the US with everyone else as squashable bit players.
great work...keep the viruses coming. Let the whole world join together to overwhelm Iran with cyber attacks. If we can avoid a conventional war through this action...it's the only responsible thing to do.
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I would have liked to have Bush (1 or 2) in office during the hostage standoff. I would have giving it about a week before they started cratering entire towns until the hostaqes were released. Sure the hostages would have probably been killed but the death exchange rate would have most like been 1000 to 1 in favor of the US. And remember the US didn't have any of the fancy smancy precision bombs or current generation cruise missles at the time and would have had to rely on heavy bombers with fighter escorts so the accuracy or lack there of would have necessitated multiple runs just to be sure. I bet the great Islamic reveloutionaries would have also found themselves to busy running for their lives to setup their glorious Islamic Republic.
As Herman Goering said... "Naturally the common people don't want war... But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy... All you have to do is to tell (the people that) they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Why does that sound disturbingly familiar...?
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As a civilian, standing in the line of fire, and considering it was Iranian hackers who supposedly pulled off the SSL cert hack last month, I'm not looking forward to the escalation of this little war.
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deskpane build 250 hashstamp appended
By hashstamp, I mean that you post the hash of whatever, and the post is datestamped and can't be edited or deleted, although it would be nice to have a "flag", indicating that someone has paid X dollars to claim that their password was stolen and so the hashstamp is possibly invalid, or even that such a challenge has been validated.
To automate this, a filename such as e.g. deskPane_w.....zip MUST begin with a dot-com name fby underscore. A hashstamp-server might send mail to hashmaster@deskpane.com to verify stuff. The first thing you would do, is say post the hash of your self-portrait, in case your ownership is challenged. "No edit, no delete" is thus powerful, no one can ever get rid of that hash, so this would be a great ritual for setting up a new domain.
*COMPARE* this to the stuxnet thing. With hashstamping the server could obviously notify the hashmaster when new hashes are posted. Even assuming the notification got lost, for important companies they COULD just view the hashstamp-journal, to verify that no-one-else has been sneaking in bogus hashstamps. With stuxnet, a copy of the certificate was SILENTLY stolen, so those files could be signed, and the true owner of the certificate has no way of knowing this is happening.
From this perspective, the advantage of certification is that it saves on communication costs. But today we can EASILY afford a server-query, each time we install a program. The use of certificates is thus viewed as a dinosaur from the dial-up-days, when hashstamp-server-queries might have been too costly. But today, this advantage of total visibility seems decisive, at least to moi, owner of www.hashstamp.com.
Anyway knowing of no such hashstamp server, for today I just append the hashstamp of my release-candidate-build, this one might ship. I was so dissapointed when slashdot allowed editing of user journals, now to get the no-edit/no-delete I have no choice but to comment in some security-discussion.
file C:\zzzz\zzzzWcDemo\deskPane_win32_win64_2011_APR_24_00250.zip nbytes 0x62868B 6456971 CRC32 28e1ac5e MD5 87c595fe508de6eea992274de3e4a651 SHA-1 9d4225e0d60e732306880cef6d61a11ad933679d SHA-256 bcb31cd8a57750439c3c95eaee8506374c7efde5de5573698b7f5c86937640fe