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Buggy Win 95 Code Almost Wrecked Stuxnet Campaign

Posted by timothy on from the when-governments-attack dept.

mask.of.sanity writes: Super-worm Stuxnet could have blown its cover and failed its sabotage mission due to a bug that allowed it to spread to ancient Windows boxes, malware analysts say. Stuxnet was on the brink of failure thanks to buggy code allowing it to spread to PCs running older and unsupported versions of Windows, and probably causing them to crash as a result. Those blue screens of death would have raised suspicions at the Natanz nuclear lab.

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  1. Windows !!! by denisbergeron · · Score: 2, Interesting

    WTF anti-american country use a OS developed in the US ?
    Why they didn't use Linux, BSD, even the Russia or RedFlag version ?

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    1. Re:Windows !!! by Shakrai · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The problem is that it isn't the easiest or most obvious thing to do.

      Yeah, it's like three or four whole mouse clicks to make it happen....

      C'Mon people, Microsoft does enough shit wrong, we don't need to make crap up.

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    2. Re:Windows !!! by hairyfeet · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Sigh...Linux has more vulnerabilities than Windows by 3 to 1 in 2014, Windows beats iOS, OSX, and Linux in least number of vulnerabilities in 2014, and how to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps targeting the same weakness that more than 90% of malware target, the user...HAND.

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