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Iranian Hackers Compromised Airlines, Critical Infrastructure Companies
itwbennett writes: For the past two years, a team of Iranian hackers has compromised computers and networks belonging to over 50 organizations in 16 countries, including airlines, defense contractors, universities, military installations, hospitals, airports, telecommunications firms, government agencies, and energy and gas companies, researchers from IT security firm Cylance said in an extensive report released Tuesday (PDF). According to the report, "ten of these victims are headquartered in the U.S. and include a major airline, a medical university, an energy company specializing in natural gas production, an automobile manufacturer, a large defense contractor, and a major military installation."
Hold on. You have to slow down. You're losing it. You have to take a breath. Listen to yourself. You're connecting a computer bug I had with a computer bug you might have had and some religious hogwash. You want to find the number 216 in the world, you will be able to find it everywhere. 216 steps from a mere street corner to your front door. 216 seconds you spend riding on the elevator. When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere.
Iran, like Cuba, decided to stop being treated like a colony.
That's so challenging to the American world view that they actually become hysterical.
Stuxnet/Duqu/FLAME and several other exploits were easily tracked to US 3 letter agencies and Israel. Stuxnet was the first Virus created by Government agencies (from any country) specifically intended to cause physical damage, not just perform non-destructive information gathering. Any idiot looking at the facts can make this determination.
Lets not neglect the fact that the US sponsors the largest group of black hat hackers in the world and claims "national security" when people complain about being hacked by them. I'm not talking about the porn spammers like we see out of Russia, I'm talking about people who actually cause physical, social, and financial damage to anyone and everyone including our "Allies".
Now compare what the NSA has done with what these "evil Iranian terrorist haxxors" did in terms of damage. There is no evidence that they did really anything except prove that they can behave like script kiddies. They stole a few files and some personal information, but this is what spear phishing does all the time and with much greater success than this group's 50 companies in a few years time frame. There is no evidence that they damaged anything at all, just a wild speculation which reads like typical fear mongering.
Before you ask for a citation, I'll simply point you to everything Snowden leaked. Not that empirical evidence is of any interest to you or anything...
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Actually, it has nothing to do with being treated as a colony. They're being punished for nationalizing US corporate infrastructure (not just some but ALL of it). It's the real reason rather than the bullshit reasons given in the past (like communism and they're a threat to the US because of their relationship with Russia ala Cuban Missile Crisis, etc.) I'm not saying this is a good reason, just trying to make it clear why they are being treated the way they are. Cuba is our example to the world of what happens when you do that shit.
Are agnostics skeptical of unicorns too?