News Stuxnet Clone 'Duqu': The Hydrogen Bomb of Cyberwarfare?

[Mojave]

Uh-oh! This is going to get bad if it keeps up-->

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/19/stuxnet-clone-duqu-hydrogen-bomb-cyberwarfare/

If the Stuxnet virus was the atom bomb of cyberwarfare, then the discovery this week of the "Duqu" virus is the hydrogen bomb, security experts are warning.
It is the second major weaponized virus to turn computers into lethal weapons with devastating destructive power.

(I don't think this was previously posted)

 

[Jarvitä]

Israel has pretty much admitted they did stuxnet to screw with Iran's enrichment program. I wonder who's behind this one?

 

[SiberianTiger]

Israel has pretty much admitted they did stuxnet to screw with Iran's enrichment program. I wonder who's behind this one?

How come was Iran's

secure, highly protected security system

connected to Internet?

 

[Wishbone]

A mole stuck a USB flash stick somewhere...

 

[SiberianTiger]

A mole stuck a USB flash stick somewhere...

Sounds like worthy of a kindergarten accident. If a security system is really protected, no one can stick a USB uncontrolled. Go try to do that in a regional cash settling centre, for example.

 

[Jarvitä]

A Mossad agent stuck a USB flash stick somewhere...

ftfy

 

[n0mad23]

The USB sticks were distributed at a convention, and handed out to many hundreds of people (you know like in the old days when someone gave you a business card).

The code in stuxnet reminds me of that scene in "A Princess Bride" where the villain says, "...but you didn't know that I knew that you knew that I'd switched the glass." The references to the Torah in the thing are real head-scratchers.

Further evidence of why we need transparency in all governments?

 

[fsci123]

Ill begin to care when they tell me who made this worm.