Stuxnet worm

I have seen serious informed speculation that this was developed by Israel to target Iran's nuclear program.


"It was found to target the control systems, made by the German company Siemens, to manage power planets, water supplies, oil rigs and other industrial systems. It used an unprecedented number of zero day exploits (undiscovered flaws in Microsoft software). No piece of malware has ever used four such vulnerabilities at the same time, two was the previous record. The Stuxnet worm is the most sophisticated cyber weapon uncovered to date in the murky world of IT security."

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/a ... 03.aspx%22

Considering that it is a German manufacturer. Maybe it is possibly someone wanting to lay the blame on Israel for further Anti-Semitic rage to be built. There are many people in this world that do not think that Israel has the right to protect itself, since they don't recognize Israel's sovereignty or right to exist. JMO

Link didn't work. While I wouldn't be surprised if this method was used I have doubts it would ever become public.

dingleheimer wrote: Link didn't work. While I wouldn't be surprised if this method was used I have doubts it would ever become public.

maybe this? http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/a ... 01003.aspx

Neptune....

Widespread rumor - possibly true.

Problem is - there's an old game called "Monkey see --- monkey do."

Simple example - all of Colorado's water flow is controlled by computers in Denver.
What's to stop someone from targeting them, using similar tactics?

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terroris ... uxnet-worm

Humorously - one of the least informative sites on the Stuxnet worm is the US-run CERT (usually one of the more detailed information sources)