Stuxnet 'cyber superweapon' moves to China

Breitbart ^ | 30 Sept. 2010 | Breitbart

[WellyP]

"A computer virus dubbed the world's "first cyber superweapon" by experts and which may have been designed to attack Iran's nuclear facilities has found a new target -- China. The Stuxnet computer worm has wreaked havoc in China, infecting millions of computers around the country, state media reported this week..."

[WellyP]

Is this why China has been so agressive of late? Are they scared? If not they should be since almost all of thier software is pirated!

[bkepley]

Two birds with one stone.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Should'a used Linux.

[BenLurkin]

They sent attack viruses here first.

They drew first blood.

We’re going to have to go cyber-Rambo on them.

[Red Badger]

The Forbin Project is coming to life..................

[bert]

The question is do the Chinese run Siemens stuff?

[nuconvert]

Well, they have links with Iran. I’m guessing it ‘s probably in N. Korea too.

[Drill Thrawl]

THERE IS ANOTHER

[UCANSEE2]

Sorry, but I think this is complete BS.

The STUXNET virus is not on the internet, and not designed to affect anything but SEIMENS SOFTWARE on the CONTROL SYSTEMS. It gained access to the Iranian systems via a thumb drive, or another PC connected via USB.

This virus would not be infecting ‘millions’ of PC’s, unless the Chinese are trying to claim they have millions of Centrifuges.

[WellyP]

I think it can be transmitted via the internet so any computer connecting to an infected computer would be open to infection.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Kinda hard to get security upgrades on pirated software.

[algernonpj]

I think it can be transmitted via the internet so any computer connecting to an infected computer would be open to infection.

According to Avast, In addition to these attack attempts, about 13% of the detections we’ve witnessed appear to be email exchange or downloads of sample files from hacker sites. Some of these detections have been picked up in packages that supposedly contain game cheats (judging by the name of the file)..

[T. P. Pole]

Wasn’t there an article in the last week or so about UFOs diabling the world’s nuclear devices? Hmm, maybe they used thumb drives.

[farmguy]

The question is do the Chinese run Siemens stuff?

They probably use close copies

[Braak]

Stuxnet=Skynet?

...just sayin

[Pride_of_the_Bluegrass]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2599003/posts

[Chode]

dejavu all over again...

In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new memoir by a Reagan White House official.

Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in the National Security Council at the time, describes the episode in "At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War," to be published next month by Ballantine Books. Reed writes that the pipeline explosion was just one example of "cold-eyed economic warfare" against the Soviet Union that the CIA carried out under Director William J. Casey during the final years of the Cold War.

At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas. There were also signs that the Soviets were trying to steal a wide variety of Western technology.

Then, a KGB insider revealed the specific shopping list and the CIA slipped the flawed software to the Soviets in a way they would not

'Programmed to go haywire' "In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds," Reed writes.

"The result was the most monumental nonnuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space," he recalls, adding that U.S. satellites picked up the explosion. Reed said in an interview that the blast occurred in the summer of 1982.

"While there were no physical casualties from the pipeline explosion, there was significant damage to the Soviet economy," he writes. "Its ultimate bankruptcy, not a bloody battle or nuclear exchange, is what brought the Cold War to an end. In time the Soviets came to understand that they had been stealing bogus technology, but now what were they to do? By implication, every cell of the Soviet leviathan might be infected. They had no way of knowing which equipment was sound, which was bogus. All was suspect, which was the intended endgame for the entire operation."

Reed said he obtained CIA approval to publish details about the operation. The CIA learned of the full extent of the KGB's pursuit of Western technology in an intelligence operation known as the Farewell Story continues below ↓

read the rest here...http://www.industrialdefender.com/general_downloads/incidents/1982.06_trans_siberian_gas_pipeline_explosion.pdf