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Iran Allegedly Hit By Computer Virus More Violent Than Stuxnet (timesofisrael.com)
TTL0 shares a report from The Times of Israel: Iranian infrastructure and strategic networks have come under attack in the last few days by a computer virus similar to Stuxnet but "more violent, more advanced and more sophisticated," and Israeli officials are refusing to discuss what role, if any, they may have had in the operation, an Israeli TV report said Wednesday. "Remember Stuxnet, the virus that penetrated the computers of the Iranian nuclear industry?" the report on Israel's Hadashot news asked. Iran "has admitted in the past few days that it is again facing a similar attack, from a more violent, more advanced and more sophisticated virus than before, that has hit infrastructure and strategic networks." The Iranians, the TV report went on, are "not admitting, of course, how much damage has been caused." On Sunday, Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran's civil defense agency, said Tehran had neutralized a new version of Stuxnet, Reuters reported. Stuxnet penetrated Iran's nuclear program, "taking control and sabotaging parts of its enrichment processes by speeding up its centrifuges," the report notes. We'll update this story when more details become available.
This virus is so powerful it even hacked Slashdot to fuck up your post title.
This makes no sense. And I am a republican so I know when things make sense.
What acts of violence has this virus committed? The linked article was rather short on detail, although it did describe several instances of violent behavior on behalf of various associated meatba^H^H^H^H^H^H humans.
The most violent thing I ever saw a program do was to toggle the tape selector input relay on the System 80 computer, rapidly, to make a loud buzzing noise, and eventually destroy the relay.
The virus is so powerful, it even hacked Chuck Norris :o
more advanced AND more sophisticated?
DAMN...
For looking at Burka pr0n on work machines.
Our entire economy is integrated with computers now. Throwing open the doors on destructive attackâ(TM)s to cripple a govt/economy is just stupid, we are way more vulnerable to this shit and no we do not have adequate protections in place.
A computer virus may stop your computer from working but its not "violent" - its not going to walk up and punch you.
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How is this not an act of war? Then again, Israel is constantly engaged in acts of war against Iran.
It's the Saudis again, probably. They want to make Iran attack them directly so they get Washington to come to their rescue like a damsel rolling on stress balls.
The more features software has the better. Eventually it will become so complicated that even the virus writers will not be able to understand it.
But writing Stuxnet was an appalling thing to do because it legitimized state sponsored computer attacks as being legitimate and non-military. The west cannot take high moral ground about them having launched Stuxnet against Iran. And Stuxnet only slowed them down by a few months anyway, despite being extremely clever. It also escaped, and was discovered in Russia, by memory.
So the only thing to do is spend lots more money on cyber warfare. So I guess the Stuxnet team was extremely successful in achieving that, its real goal.
He who smelt it dealt it.
Doesn't anyone consider the idea that by deploying this weaponized code, they are giving the iranians a tool to use to retaliate ?
ie, stick a thumb drive in a known infected computer, airplane trip to the U.S. , drop thumb drive in parking lot labeled "PORN" , etc..
Maybe people in that region of the world should stop being childish idiots and learn how to get along with each other. I know that would require some common sense. Maybe that's what they are lacking around there?
Everyone seems to assume it's Israel. The regressive Saudi barbarians are making far more noises at the moment, has anyone considered them as the source?
Nitro Zeus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro_Zeus
They talked about that in the Zero Days documentary about Stuxnet. Assuming the sources were actually reliable, they basically said it was a system designed to target just about every aspect of their infrastructure- not just nuclear enrichment. The movie made it sound like it was still under development (or that it had been deployed but not yet activated). The same movie also mentioned that Stuxnet only started spreading after the Israelis fucked with the code- I'm wondering if they got their hands on something related to NZ and pulled a similar stunt, which is why we're only hearing about it just now.
Who?
Could be anybody.
Because the crazy mullahs that run Iran do shit like this:
AMIA bombing in Argentina.
2012 Bangkok bombings
2012 Burgas bus bombing in Bulgaria.
2011 alleged Iran assassination plot
then your system is wide open to U.S. government agencies. Any country that cares about security has to ween their government systems off American hardware and software.
Pfff, that's nothing compared to the US and Israel.
I think Israel would be quite happy to be assumed to responsible even if they were not. They would be the fall guy for the US, purely to engender the perception they were capable of this.
Iran is not short of enemies these days and this would also include the Saudis. Though I would suspect their inhouse capability, I think they would be quite able to outsource this requirement.
It specifically targetted Siemens controllers the Iranians had bought. It ensured that for the future the Iranians would either buy American controllers on the black market or use non-western controllers which there was a lesser chance of the US/Israel having source code to.
The Germans were pissed about Stuxnet as it killed their market for controllers around the world.
**Life is too short to be serious**
He was handing out infected USB drives.
No real reason for him to be there given he has no official post in the US govt anymore so maybe hes supplementing his retirement with a little freelance cyberterrorism
**Life is too short to be serious**
Canada. Canada is the only country that could do this AND get away with it. Who'd think Canada? That's laughable. But it's so ridiculous that it was Canada that it HAS to be Canada.
That's undercover warfare. Which can lead to hot warfare. Common sense is that you do not attack the infrastructure of other country which are not in the immediate step of attacking you.
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Canada. Canada is the only country that could do this AND get away with it. Who'd think Canada? That's laughable. But it's so ridiculous that it was Canada that it HAS to be Canada.
Apparently this message pops up on the screen:
"Dear User, I'm sorry, but this PC has now been wiped of all relevant data by the "Stuxnet Eh?" virus. I am really sorry I wiped out all your data. Again... I'm really really sorry, PM Trudeau made me write this, and he is really sorry too!"
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
It can't be any more destructive than whatever mental illness has taken over your brain and reduced you to trolling slashdot.
Weird flex, but ok
It's fine for them, actually. Muslims don't mind any failure in modern systems. They prefer to live in the stone age anyhow.
Stuxnet was a worm, not a virus. "Computer worms are similar to viruses in that they replicate functional copies of themselves and can cause the same type of damage. In contrast to viruses, which require the spreading of an infected host file, worms are standalone software and do not require a host program or human help to propagate." cisco.com.
Why does at least one person always insist on feeding the troll bot? It is never in context and says the same thing every post. If it were funny or clever or original or god forbid actually had something to say but... that never happens. Please just ignore it.
just not with computers. The shit America's done around the world to destabilize it in the name of our economic interests (oil mostly) is insane. I've lost count of how many Democratically elected governments we've overthrown. By all accounts we just installed a dictator in Brazil (there's strong evidence we helped torpedo their progressive President and paved the way for the far right whack job that just took office). And of course it was us that radicalized Iran. We installed a puppet regime and when the only place the rebels weren't being watched was the Mosques that's where the next rebellion took root, resulting in the current batch of, well, far right whack jobs...
What I'm saying that wrecking shit internationally has a long, long standing history. Doing it with a computer is no more novel than running a taxi cab service or an auction house with a computer.
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Israel's Slashdot?
Or maybe just an editor's confession?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Whataboutism. And perhaps you are aware of this little thing we call 9/11? And all the anti-American bobbing going back long before as well as after. The OP has a point. You do not.
Okay now THAT is scary
Only Bruce Schneier can hack Chuck Norris, but he doesn't because all of creation might suffer the consequences.
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Oh, man, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but it's required by Canadian law ... we'll be deploying a bomber fleet of stealth Canada Geese to your location, with a moose artillery-division in support of the light-infantry beavers ground assault squads (the Queen's Beaver brigade is famous and highly feared among those in the know, and their bushcraft is second to none).
Yes, of course we know your location, we have a well developed squirrel-based intelligence gathering system which is completely undetectable and has infiltrated pretty much everywhere.
Don't try to run, they will find you, geese and beavers are relentless trackers, and operate under weapons free conditions at all times. They'll level the building, and then apologise profusely and offer to help clean up the mess -- well, except the geese, they don't worry much about collateral damage, it's not in their mandate, plus they don't have hands.
We can't have you interfering with national security operations ... er, eh.
I'm writing this from the perspective of an American, and I am no fan of Iran. Iran has a terrible religious fundamentalist regime that murders people and exports terror throughout the Middle East, to include attacking Israel. But I am sick and tired of being told by our pols that Iran is our mortal enemy, and represents a grave national security threat that needs to be attacked and destroyed. Especially when those same pols supports a different middle eastern country that has a terrible religious fundamentalist regime that murders people and exports terror throughout the Middle East and occasionally to Lower Manhattan.
It's about nuclear weapons!!! But we support another Moslem nation that also has nuclear weapons, has live-tested them, gone to war with their neighbor multiple times, supported our enemies in Afghanistan, and is coincidentally where we found Osama Bin Laden's hiding place. So Iran can't have nuclear weapons, but the other one can? At least we know who's in charge in Iran. I'm not too sure who's really in charge in that other nuclear-armed Moslem country, it could be the military on Monday and Thursday, the civilians on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the clerics on Friday. They all take the weekend off.
Maybe it's human rights??? But our "allies" just dismembered a journalist and have been waging a criminal bombing campaign in Yemen. No big deal, according to our President, who reminded us that Journalist was a moslem immigrant (green card holder), and then proudly exclaimed how much money our "friends" were spending on weapons, basically putting a price on the head of that journalist, anyone with a green card (including my wife), and all Yemenis. The President never struck me as especially intelligent, but he knew the price of those weapons down to the last nickel, so maybe he's a "stable genius" after all, especially when it comes to people giving him money.
What's the difference? One chants "death to Israel" so much that it has become cliche and supports Hezbollah, lobbing mortars into Israel and occasionally funds a suicide bomber. The other one exports Wahhabism, brainwashing one person at a time, including Mohamad Atta and a few hijackers who came to America and took up flying. The cynic in me believes the difference is one country is good for business, the other is not. I hope some day people will realize Iran is not our enemy and never will be our friend. Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan are not our "friends" or our "allies", but shouldn't me made into enemies. We need to get realistic about the Middle East and above all else be consistent. Either we're for human rights or against them. But we can no longer have it both ways.
Some fool country launches a biological agent against their enemy and it spreads to the rest of the world.
Why Israel does not mind Trump's anti-Semitic supporters
It is in the interest of Israel for Jewish Americans and Jewish Europeans to feel unsafe.
Nora Barrows Friedmanby Nora Barrows Friedman
31 Oct 2018 10:21 GMT
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visit a memorial outside Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 30, 2018 [AP Photo/Matt Rourke]
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visit a memorial outside Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 30, 2018 [AP Photo/Matt Rourke]
The massacre of Jewish worshippers on Saturday by an avowed anti-Semite in Pittsburgh reveals a clear, straight line between Trump's sustained dog-whistles - against Jews, black people, Muslims, immigrants and members of the LGBTQ community - to the violence carried out by right-wing white nationalists.
Robert Bowers, apprehended after a shooting spree that killed 11 people, explained he wanted "all Jews to die" and described immigrants and asylum-seekers as "invaders" of the United States. Instead of condemning far-right nationalism, Trump reinforced this hysteria, tweeting on Monday that a caravan of asylum-seekers coming from Honduras should be considered as an "invasion" and that the US military "would be waiting" for them. Last week, Trump proudly embraced the "nationalist" term.
Bowers had consumed and regurgitated the lethal rhetoric of far-right extremists who want to rid the US of non-white, non-Christian people, and of a government which constantly incites hatred and vilification of all marginalized groups.
Three days earlier, a white supremacist in Kentucky set out to kill black people. He eventually murdered Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vickie Lee Jones, 67, in a grocery store.
There is no question that these killers were motivated by the white nationalist extremism the Trump administrations has adopted and encouraged.
After Saturday's synagogue massacre, curiously, Israeli leaders offered their condolences but refused to address Trump's responsibility for fuelling such anti-Semitic violence.
Instead, they scrambled to provide cover for the US president while Israel advocates attempted to blame the rise in anti-Semitism on left-wing, anti-racist and anti-fascist activists who campaign for Palestinian rights.
Why would they do this, especially when American Jewish support for Trump is overwhelmingly low, and while Israel claims to be the protector of all Jewish people? To whom - or to what - were they speaking?
The unwillingness by Israeli leaders to confront such modern-day Nazism and the political forces pushing state-sponsored bigotry and hatred exposes that state's unsettling alliance with Trump and his agenda.
For Israel, Trump has been the ideal partner in its efforts to crush Palestinian resistance and deny rights to African asylum-seekers while entrenching apartheid and systematic, unchecked violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Trump has, in turn, looked to Israel to model his policies of intensified militarisation of the US-Mexico border, his authoritarian threats against asylum-seekers and immigrants, and his open embrace of nationalist figures and right-wing legislators.
Notorious white supremacist Richard Spencer, speaking about his dream to make the US a European ethno-nationalist state, for example, has said he sees Israel as the ideal model.
Spencer has even dubbed his project for an Aryan state "white Zionism."
Brazil's president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right extremist who has promised to treat social movements as terrorist organisations and wage a war on poor and indigenous communities, has also embraced Israel and says he will - like Trump - move his country's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Israeli flags were prominently waved during rallies celebrating Bolsonaro's win on Sunday, a chilling symbol of Israel's popularity in fascist political movements.
But there is another reason Israel is
Chuck Norris can compile any program in Visual Basic, running in Windows ME.
The problem is that Iran is our enemy because SA and co. are our friends. You're right, though, that basically none of them are really people we should be comfortable being friends with. There are no great people to be friends with and they love to stab us in the back, as you pointed out with Obama taking out Osama in Pakistan.
That said, the fewer nuclear weapons in the hands of crazy people, the better. From the perspective, I can understand not wanting more mortal enemies to have nuclear weapons. We don't really need more groups that might agree to mutual annihilation. But you're right, it's pretty arbitrary and I don't blame anyone for hating it.
and I have a fuck ton more money than you, because i'm a jew. good luck with your shit.
"Dear User, I'm sorry, but this PC has now been wiped of all relevant data by the "Stuxnet Eh?" virus. I am really sorry I wiped out all your data. Again... I'm really really sorry, PM Trudeau made me write this, and he is really sorry too!"
And by Canadian law, you forgot to add:
"Cher utilisateur, je suis désolé, mais le virus" Stuxnet Eh? "A effacé de ce PC toutes les données pertinentes. , Le PM Trudeau m'a fait écrire ceci et il est vraiment désolé aussi! "
What about facts, 9/11 was Saudi Arabian citizens and financing.
Of course Iran is the enemy.
1.We can't attack Saudi Arabia.
We can't afford to attack Saudi Arabia because we desperately need Saudi to sell its oil in US dollars.
2. We can't attack Pakistan.
If we attack Pakistan they will lob nukes on India which will lead to hundreds of millions of Indians flocking into the United States of America to escape the radiation.
We Americans are not ready to use the word 'needful', at least not yet.
3. We can't attack China.
If we do our farmers' crops, like wheat, corn, and soybeans would have no market.
Plus, many of our whitetrash / rednecks like to fuck those cute chinadolls .
If we attack China there will be no chinadolls anymore, and without chinadolls to fuck those whitetrash / rednecks might end up fucking our precious elite girls.
4. We can't attack Russia.
They have huge stockpile of nukes, that could keep America radiated for centuries to come.
In other words, Iran is the only choice we've got left.
If we don't attack Iran, we will no longer have any enemy, and we, the Americans, desperately need enemies so we can hate someone.
That IS funny :-)