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at December 16,2016
Fascinating to see all the pieces come together. I guess they need to reevaluate that air gap. So the real lesson here is to sure up our airgap policies and processes.
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sstumvoll
at January 30,2017
What an incredibly complex product Stuxnet was to incorporate all of that technology into one bug. It is very interesting that the developer(s) was able to customize the program down to the degree of turning on the centrifuges and then off again to avoid detection. And then was able to destroy 1000 nuclear centrifuges from this activity. It is very hard to imagine the amount of research and time spent developing the worm and also to obtain the stolen digital certificates, and use them to gain access into what was likely a very secure environment.
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echukalov
at February 16,2017
I never knew that Stuxnet was so complex, it is very impressive malware! Because it required detailed knowlege about the nuclear centrofuges and multiple zero days that could only be found by reviewing the source code of the operating system, it sounds to me that this is definitely a Government funded operation. No single hacker could have written Stuxnet, but rather a large team of people with various areas of expertise, proper funding and access to information that is impossible to get by anyone else.
I'm just wondering how much time and research it took to develop, and also how did they beta test it? Stuxnet was so complex and thought out to handle many different scenarios, which shows that it was thoroughly tested and debugged before it was sent to Iran. Was there nuclear factory that was used as the gunea pig? What if things went wrong?
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echukalov
at February 16,2017
I never knew that Stuxnet was so complex, it is very impressive malware! Because it required detailed knowledge about the nuclear centrifuges and multiple zero days that could only be found by reviewing the source code of the operating system, it sounds to me that this is definitely a Government funded operation. No single hacker could have written Stuxnet, but rather a large team of people with various areas of expertise, proper funding and access to information that is impossible to get by anyone else.
I'm just wondering how much time and research it took to develop, and also how did they beta test it? Stuxnet was so complex and thought out to handle many different scenarios, which shows that it was thoroughly tested and debugged before it was sent to Iran. Was there nuclear factory that was used as the guinea pig? What if things went wrong?
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jahmad
at February 27,2017
I find it amazing how technology, specifically a virus, can be used now to render a whole nuclear system useless. It scares me a bit as well to know that such viruses can be created and can get to systems that are virtually closed off from the outside world. This also amazes me at what technology can do now. This just serves as a reminder that no system, no matter if closed off, will ever be 100% protected and backup plans must be considered for such scenarios.
