Posted on 09/26/2010 10:56:25 AM PDT by La Lydia
A complex computer worm has infected the personal computers of staff at Iran's first nuclear power station, the official IRNA news agency reported. However, the operating system at the Bushehr plant - due to go online in a few weeks - has not been harmed, project manager Mahmoud Jafari said. The Stuxnet worm is capable of seizing control of industrial plants. Some Western experts say its complexity suggests it could only have been created by a "nation state"...
The fact that Stuxnet has now been detected on the personal computers of staff will have no impact on plans to make the Bushehr plant operational next month, Mr Jafari said.
A team is now trying to remove the malicious software, or malware, from several affected computers, he told IRNA. It is believed to be the first-known worm designed to target major infrastructure facilities.
"An electronic war has been launched against Iran", Mahmoud Liayi, head of the information technology council at the ministry of industries, told the state-run Iran Daily newspaper.
A working group of experts met last week to discuss ways of fighting the worm, which Mr Liayi said has now infected about 30,000 IP addresses in Iran.
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Someone at the NSA is going to get a pink slip over this from Obama...
More than one way to skin a cat—bump
My bet is that it’s not really that sophisticated a piece of malware. If it was, whoever made it would have kept it quiet. Its purpose is probably to scare the Hell out of the Iranians when they turn the thing on.
Whoever created the Stuxnet (and certainly it was not the United States because the information would already have been leaked to the NYTimes) was not interested in a bunch of Iranian laptops. The game was much deeper and seems to account for the delays in the Bushehr operation that were first noted about three weeks ago. Other reports have it that Bushehr has been badly damaged. Included in discussions on this are Russia, Israel, Germany, and Siemens.
Whoever created the Stuxnet (and certainly it was not the United States because the information would already have been leaked to the NYTimes) was not interested in a bunch of Iranian laptops. The game was much deeper and seems to account for the delays in the Bushehr operation that were first noted about three weeks ago. Other reports have it that Bushehr has been badly damaged. Included in discussions on this are Russia, Israel, Germany, and Siemens.
Do you really believe that the plant’s mainframe isn’t online? This is a major setback. This story has been floating around for a week now. There’s a reason it was leaked. The question is what else has been hit by this virus in Iran. When traffic lights all turn red yellow and green we’ll know. This is more like the movie Lawnmower Man. Things you never thought possible...
“Honey, you seen the Linux CD...”
“I think it was next to the box of clay pigeons...”
Why in the world would they put a plant like this on the Internet?
Someone's trying to convince us that Iran is less of a threat to the world than is actually the case.
Israel has been implicated, and it may very well be true. Allow me to speculate that the malware could have even been created with the help of Russia in cooperation with Israel.
Russia has nothing to gain by allowing the whack jobs in Iran to become nuclear any more than anyone in ME or East Europe does. But the nuke facility is of Russian design and origin, and Russians know its vulnerabilities.
Now let's speculate that Russia simply hoped to benefit from a transaction, but which when Iran chooses to exercise the technology, the system engages, overheats unexplainably and power kill switches are confounded and stuck in the off position. The tech becomes a molten mass of junk.
As an aside, Russia even reneged on shipment of S-300 missiles or their parts recently, too, if I recall correctly.
I'm just guessing but I'll bet Iranians are even fearful to throw any switches of any kind at this point.
I don't think the Saudi's have in their possession any tech from US or Russia that could do this, but they could be involved in this thing too in some way. They have no desire to see a nuclearly equipped Iran run as it is by a mad man situated within range of the same missiles that could reach Riyadh as easily as they can reach Tel Aviv.
What would be really funny to see would be Iran firing off missiles whose guidance system software has been corrupted and reprogrammed in such a way as to return the missile's trajectory to its the original site of firing. Might even be able to manipulate such a thing from a satellite.
Boom boom. Iran shoots itself, and this brings about regime change.
Just speculation, of course.
I've been including the following in recent threads on this topic. What Reagan did to the Soviets is quite instructive:
FReegards!
One can only hope.
lol
translated.....
I KILL YOU!
Translated from what language?
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Stuxnet worm hits Iran nuclear plant staff computers
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Simplest explanation...
The Iranian government workers are probably just acting like OUR government
works at the Security and Exchange Commission...
spending all day surfing the Internet for porn.
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