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How Investigators Deciphered Stuxnet

suraj.sun tips a story at Wired that takes an in-depth look into how security researchers tracked down and worked to understand the infamous Stuxnet worm. The article begins: "It was January 2010, and investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency had just completed an inspection at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in central Iran, when they realized that something was off within the cascade rooms where thousands of centrifuges were enriching uranium. But when the IAEA later reviewed footage from surveillance cameras installed outside the cascade rooms to monitor Iran's enrichment program, they were stunned as they counted the numbers. The workers had been replacing the units at an incredible rate — later estimates would indicate between 1,000 and 2,000 centrifuges were swapped out over a few months. The question was, why?"

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  1. Another really good article by bigredradio · · Score: 4, Informative

    There was another good article in Vanity Fair

  2. Re:Possibly the coolest cyberwar article I've read by EvanED · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you had RTFA (or perhaps with a more critical eye) you'd know that they had no clue about that at that time. When they first went public with it, all they knew was that it was a quite sophisticated attack that went after Step7 controllers. And given that, I definitely agree with them that it was in everyone's best interest to release that information.

  3. Re:Possibly the coolest cyberwar article I've read by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Look up the definition of "semitic". Jews, Muslims and Christians fall under this category. You seem to be quite poorly informed yourself.

  4. Re:Possibly the coolest cyberwar article I've read by EEPROMS · · Score: 3, Informative

    You seriously need to go to Israel and see how the local officials and zionists treat their Arab citizens. It's common practice for Zionist officials to re-assign property as being abandoned or derelict if an arab family lives in it so they can move a zionist family into it, even if the arab family have lived there for 30 years and have paperwork to prove ownership of the property. Then you have the local police standing by while zionists stone arabs and break their windows to force them out of their homes. If that isn't ethnic cleansing I don't know what is. People keep saying Israel is a democracy. I say Israel is a democracy for jews and screw everyone else.

  5. Re:Possibly the coolest cyberwar article I've read by pheonix7117 · · Score: 3, Informative
    I hate to have to do this, but while 'semitic' may indeed include Jews, Muslims, and Christians, the definition of 'anti-semitism' is quite clear. From Miriam-Webster:

    Definition of ANTI-SEMITISM: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

    Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti%20semitic