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Mars Rover Code Used For Cyber-Espionage Malware
An anonymous reader writes: Two open-source libraries used in the Mars Rover software have been integrated in the source code of a malware family (nicknamed Rover) used as part of a cyber-espionage campaign against the Indian government (Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan). The two libraries are OpenCV and OpenAL, two libraries for processing image and audio information. As such, the Rover malware can take screenshots, record video and audio.
I was unaware OpenCV was developed for the mars rover. I always thought it was just an open source library to be used by whoever was willing to abide by it's license.
Common software libraries used for malware. News at 11.
What about glibc? Does code used in my Android phone also used for other horrendous things?
because this isn't one.
What sensationalist BS. It's using standard libraries open to anyone, nothing unique to the mars rover.
Why not say that it links against libc and that it uses "Nuclear Reactor Code!!11!" in its malware.
...this load of crap.
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The "C" programming language, used in Linux, FreeBSD and Python, has been used to construct ________.
Really? OpenCV was used for something? I fail to see how this has any connection to the Mars rover.
OpenCV and OpenAL have been used so many places that I don't see how it's topical to mention they were used in the Mars Rover. My phone has probably appeared in plenty of movies but I don't refer to it as "The same phone $ACTOR used in $MOVIE" when talking about its ability to do something technical.
This is why technology education should be compulsory.
Better also mention the entire pedigree of all the other software used in it. What about the TCP stack and the university that developed it?
And in other news:
Defense network "DARPANET" used to install malware! News at 11!
Is this a push to ban open source? If so by whom and why the FUCK is slashdot supporting it?
FUCK OFF.
I don't ordinarily let myself post insults online that could get me in legal trouble. so I have nothing to say.
We all clicked it to reply to that "article" so it's a good one.
./ is going rapidly downhill with these kind of stories.
Is Rupert Murdoch a "silent" partner among the new owners??
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Next thing you know, the Mars rover will be sending me spam emails. Something about good prices for property with views of Olympus Mons.
Water, made popular by life itself and recently featured in numerous films and advertisements, has been subverted and used by multiple terror groups to continue living while conducting terrorist activities. Security experts are researching ways to prevent misuse of this popular molecule in the future.
What are you trying to tell us ?
That open source software is terrorism, with weapons so advanced that they're also used by federal agencies ?
Or that these projects' licences should have been GPL, so that it would have prevented the malware authors to spread their software without publishing their source code, and we all would have our personal rovers now thanks to all of that NASA code ?
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Just avoid any story posted by Timothy. He's known for posting sensationalist bullshit with no content whatsoever. He likes to link to forbes and never spell/grammar checks his submissions. He is the embodiment of exactly how horrible Slashdot has become and will continue to be. If you see a story that was posted by Timothy, just assume its going to be garbage designed to maximize ad revenue.
Chemical given to children used to create nuclear bombs!
H2O, sometimes known as "water", is given to children. It also has uses in industrial factories as a cleanser and is even used as a shielding for nuclear reactors. This chemical, which has been refereed to as the "universal solvent" has been known to be used during the making of nuclear bombs.
Youths have been spotty spraying each other with this solvents as a game. Film at 11.
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And we all know that NASA spurred the integrated circuit development (or was that DARPA), so the computer that is hacking other computers with "rover" is also a result of NASA's diabolical creations. It all seems like it was planned that way.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
At first I thought all this complaining was a bunch of nonsense and that it was a bit of an interesting story. Then I realized that I had misread the summary. This wasn't code that was developed for the Mars rover, it was code that just happened to also be used in the Mars rover. Interest gone, complaining agreed with.
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Or an exercise in "how to turn a non-story into something topical"?
Fine trolling, I have to give you that. Managed to fool the editors into actually thinking this is a story.
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We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Is your knowledge of opensource this bad? Neither library was created for the Rover, just used by the Rover. That's like saying 120V electricity used by Obama, used by 9/11 terrorists! This is a non story.
Mars Rover Code Used For Cyber-Espionage Malware
Hey, whipslash, where are you? This is the kind of shitty misleading click-bait none of us want to see.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
and you should feel bad.
Seriously, what in the hell. This Daily Mail level journalism.
This is same crap that gave us the 'Subway Bread Uses a Chemical also Found in Yoga Mats!' sensationalism. The fact that open source libraries were used by NASA and Malware peddlers just means open source is a trusted format for developing dependable software, just as non-toxic food additives can have multiple purposes.
Just wait till the Martians find about that, NASA you are so busted.
"According to Palo Alto Networks, on December 24, 2015, India's Ambassador to Afghanistan received a spear-phishing email that contained a new malware variant" ref
Can you please delete this horseshit? What a bunch of complete nonsense.
I'm not saying it was aliens, but...
Really Slashdot is doing this shit now?
Windows 10 CUDE USED TO KILL PEOPLE!
because io.h and math.h are used in both windows 10 and smartbombs!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
FTA "Rover is largely undetected by today's antivirus engines"
Can of worms here but the malware community as a whole is working with others allowing "stuff" to get through.
Case in point that Microsoft GWZ update of April 4, 2015 KB3035583 (misspelled as CWZ in my journal) sent out 24 hours of a users (your) computer usage. I have that file, my HOST file kept it from leaving for 11 days before I found it. Not one anti-malware program has ever been set-up to catch it, nor scan for it -and you don't want it on your system, let alone what it sent out.
Yet any decent malware program or firewall will warn of an unknown file attempting to leave, allowing or requiring your consent; if not warning you of it's activity first. Of course I followed it and not once has it been detected.
Even warnings of this GWZ got me banned from sevenforums_com for "posting crap" (the first and only time I've been banned from anywhere). I'm not conspiracy minded but this does reek of us and them.
The GWZ file that was sent out has no identifiable information and as I see it one reason it's being allowed, yet one can watch me install new video card drivers scanning it.
You have it? It can't be hidden in the update files one selects to download; it's location Windows\system32\GWZ (entire directory). Look around in it and notice all the odd protections that protect it. Then take ownership of it http://www.tenforums.com/tutor... and remove it.
Look for it after every update you receive. Accept the fact your 24 hours of computer usage has long ago been sent.
Clickbait article uses the exact same words as President Obama!
In other news, /. was actually bought by Fox
What the hell does Mars Rover got to do with it? Who wrote this?? Softpedia? Lame.
Maybe they also used math.h...
please remove story.
What the fuck?
Patents Drive Free Software as Hurricanes Drive Construction Industry
John von Neumann is helping Islamic terrorists from his grave. Our correspondent found out that ISIS has been using von Neumann computers to propagate terrorist propaganda over the Internet. Find out more tonight at 8... In all seriousness, though, I don't think this is Slashdot's fault. They're just reporting the story as is without filtering it, under the assumption that their readers will be able to make out what's happening right from the summary itself.
Though I am glad to hear that it will fully use my DSP hardware. I always want my malware infections to have hardware accelerated 3D positional audio without having to wrap dll's.
That's all the summary is...
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More news to follow.
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Well said !! What a crap article.
I didn't realize the NSA was involved with the Rover code. Goes to show you that back doors are everywhere, even on Mars.