Posted on 02/15/2011 12:35:01 PM PST by ColdOne
The group of anonymous "hacktivists" that made headlines for online cyberattacks in December just released a bombshell online: a decrypted version of the same cyberworm that crippled Iran's nuclear power program.
The ones and zeroes that make up the code called the Stuxnet worm -- described as the most sophisticated cyberweapon ever created -- were reportedly found when the faceless group hacked into the computers of HBGary, a U.S. security company that the anonymous collective viewed as an enemy. And the security experts FoxNews.com spoke with said the leaked code was serious cause for concern.
"There is the real potential that others will build on what is being released," Michael Gregg, chief operating officer of cybersecurity firm Superior Solutions, told FoxNews.com. Gregg was quick to clarify that the group hasn't released the Stuxnet worm itself, but rather a decrypted version of it HBGary had been studying -- which could act almost like a building block for cybercrooks.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
First off, there are at least 10,000 highest level programmers in Iran. They do not need this code from Anonymous leak.
Secondly, many of those programmers that work for the Rev Guards and Iran’s nuclear development networks were trained in Western and Russian universities. Additionally, Western companies trained the Iranian nuclear program IT workers in the West, in Russia and on site in Iran.
Third, Russian IT workers are on site in Iran working on Stuxnet mitigation.
Overall, this leak shows the HBGary is actively working with US intelligence on multiple matters, including actively attacking Constitutional copyright laws and 1st amendment rights of American citizens. The overall situation has never been so open to the minds of American and Western citizens, inside the WIPO Broadcast Treaty, the PRO-ID law, and the Anti Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA).
This destruction of long standing copyright law and legal treaties has caused serious ill will towards all American intersts in Europe, with over a dozen European Parliaments coming under intense internal scrutiny to defy the diktats of American, British and French copyright conglomerates in the future.
Anonymous is not a “group of hackers”, it is small groups activists with autonymous and self selected supporters from your sons, brothers and husbands fighting back against the complete destruction of known copyright protections enjoyed by the general public over the last 120 years.
Keep that in mind as the MSM owned by the same corporations who gain the most by taking the most from the general public, turn on the propaganda and agitation machine through the MSM against those fighting back against the closing of the public domain.
Looks like the current resident won’t need to worry about a “switch” to turn off the internet if we get uppity. These guys will do it for him.
From what I understand the centrifuges that were damaged are permanently mechanically damaged, not just infected...that was the whole purpose of it.
thanks for the ping
Others can built on the platform ideas...
LOL. But your I.E. might, as it would apprear to be a malware magnet.
Note: this topic is from 2/15/2011.Thanks ColdOne. Additional:
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