10:47 Stuxnet worm is designed to sabotage at nuclear facilities | |
After reading this headline, I would have thought that we are talking about trying to attract the attention of "passing by" the reader - but there is no such title matches content of the article entirely. The fact that a specialist in information security from Germany, Ralph Lengner, subjected to detailed analysis of the worm. Results of the analysis is quite impressive - Jumping ahead, I will say that this most Lengner suggests that the creation of the worm could be a whole state, not some kind of hacker-student or group. Of course, quite often, and one gifted student can do something that the whole research institutes are working for a long time without getting a result. But here is likely not the case. I recall that Stuxnet intended primarily for PCs with software company Siemens, which is commonly used in various industrial process control systems. And it's not small businesses, as much as nuclear plants. The code Stuxnet found a site that, theoretically, could allow attackers to gain access to the very systems of control. Stuxnet designed to attack the components of enterprise management (SCADA), which are used in chemical, nuclear and other large (major) companies. Lengner golosloven not - making such a statement at a conference on information security in the workplace, he also published a detailed analysis of code segments of the virus on your own site. And "bezopasnik" did it last week, although it has become known only now. «Stuxnet is 100% but the attack, which is aimed at violation of the conventional industrial processes in the usual same, not virtual, world" - says Ralph Lengner. Three of the largest specialist in information security from the U.S., including Michael Assante, agree with the theory Lengnera. Until now, the worm code insufficiently studied, it is too complicated, but the work continues to be conducted. Interestingly, the experts reached a consensus that Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant is the main purpose for this worm - in principle, one can easily guess who is eager to destroy such a venture in that country. True, the worm is found worldwide, not only in Iran, so that it can be called extremely effective. On the PC Stuxnet penetrates through the use of the three vulnerabilities (in the OS Windows), from which, the month of June closed the only one. Security experts have also called Stuxnet first virtual super-weapon created to destroy the real objects. Via Dvice.com | |
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