Govts and cyber attacks

[dead0man]

Some of you may have heard of Stuxnet.  Most of us probably haven't.

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Another link
Most of the 45,000 infected computer systems are in Iran, Pakistan, India and Indonesia.  And from the second link:

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Good news?  Bad news?  Scary news?

[dead0man]

Iran acknowledges it's been hit by it.link

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I know this isn't as important as the goings on of BushOK or making fun of the moronic 9-11 conspiritards, but I was hoping for a little discussion here.

[John Dibble]

Inevitable news. Nations have been spying on and trying to sabotage rival nations for a long, long time. With so much infrastructure coming to rely on computers and the internet, it was only inevitable that such things would enter that realm.

[dead0man]

This story keeps getting better.  link (even if I seem to be the only person that cares)

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Sure, just blowing it up would have made for a better discussion and given the anti-Se.....errrr, anti-Zionists and the anti-West more hay play with, but really, this way is a 1000 times cooler.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

This story keeps getting better.  link (even if I seem to be the only person that cares)

few on this forum know what is really going on in the world.

[dead0man]

link

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[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I wonder who would be interested in screwing with Iran, and those Arab countries and Israel.  Is this military data or is it mainly civilian?

[Donerail]

I wonder who would be interested in screwing with Iran, and those Arab countries and Israel.  Is this military data or is it mainly civilian?

According to Kapersky, "we only found traces of good English used inside the code", so probably not an English-speaking nation. If I had to guess, I'd say Israel.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I wonder who would be interested in screwing with Iran, and those Arab countries and Israel.  Is this military data or is it mainly civilian?

According to Kapersky, "we only found traces of good English used inside the code", so probably not an English-speaking nation. If I had to guess, I'd say Israel.

But isn't Israel one of the targets? 

[Donerail]

I wonder who would be interested in screwing with Iran, and those Arab countries and Israel.  Is this military data or is it mainly civilian?

According to Kapersky, "we only found traces of good English used inside the code", so probably not an English-speaking nation. If I had to guess, I'd say Israel.

But isn't Israel one of the targets? 

Yes, but look at what it does... It gets into sensitive Israeli computer systems and sends classified Israeli government data to the Israeli government, and with a few computers infected, they can say it's not them.

[dead0man]

So...huh....using that same logic, why couldn't it be Iran or one of those Arab countries doing the same thing?

[Donerail]

So...huh....using that same logic, why couldn't it be Iran or one of those Arab countries doing the same thing?

Because most likely an Iran, Syria, or Sudan does not have the capability to make a virus this complex. It'd take a nation with sufficiently advanced technology and will to do such, such as Israel, the US, or a major European power (think France, Germany, or the UK). Iran really doesn't have that level of technological advancement, nor does any of the Arab countries (except the Saudis).

[dead0man]

Trojan targets Iranian and Syrian dissidents via proxy tool

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[dead0man]

NY Times confirms what we suspected.  link

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Much more at link.