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Iran Confirms Stuxnet Caused Damage To Nuclear Sites!
Original Stuxnet Researcher Issues Dire Warnings
Original Stuxnet Researcher Issues Dire Warnings "After Stuxnet was identified as a weapon, we recommended to every asset owner in America – owners of power plants, chemical plants, refineries and others – to make it a …
Publish Date: 09/23/2011 17:00
https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16689-Original-Stuxnet-Researcher-Issues-Dire-Warnings.html
An Iranian Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant Executive confirmed on Sunday that its nuclear reactor project had been infected by the Stuxnet virus, but said that no significant harm had been done. The executive failed to say what harm had been done however, and if months of delays at the Bushehr plant had been caused by the virus.
What is Stuxnet?
Well Stuxnet is much more than a virus and the program is apparently so sophisticated that teams of experts around the world haven’t yet discovered how it works and what it’s capable of doing.
It’s assumed however that a country created the virus and not a person or persons in a basement, and all heads are looking at the US, Israel and China as they are considered the only countries capable of creating the program.
Stuxnet is complex self-replicating malware that uses Windows vulnerabilities to insert itself into Scada (supervisory control and data acquisition) industrial control systems made by Siemens, which it then scans for information to report back to its controllers over the internet.
Under some conditions, it can then take control of the industrial systems, and it can be remotely updated.
Whether or not we’re pleased that the “virus” can slow down Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, what concerns me is that the question that now begs to be answered is, “When will sophisticated programs of this sort start taking over the power plants, water distribution etc and even the military installations of countries deemed to be enemies?”.
How Much Can We Trust The Media?
Biased BBC: THE NEWS YOU WONT READ ON THE BBC
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Slanted journalism. Digging through the news I keep a jaded eye about reporting. There was a time when journalists were bold enough to question authority and dig deeply into backgrounds. Today it's a different story (pardon …
Newspaper editors and TV producers decide what to broadcast on TV and what to print in newspapers.
So I’ve been wondering how much of what we see and read is influenced by their personal opinions and beliefs, and also by advertising revenues etc.
I used to more or unless accept what I saw on my favorite TV channel or read in my regular newspaper and magazine but I’ve recently become far more skeptical because of what I read about Obama.
It’s easy to believe that different people are being talked about when I read articles about Obama or if I see him being talked about on NBC or Fox for example.
Is there really some way to get balanced news, to get the truth?
