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Old 16th January 2011
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Default Stuxnet Espionage Worm

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/wo...t.html?_r=1&hp
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Old 16th January 2011
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Thanks for the link. Like the killing of Masoud Ali Mohammadi, the Mossad's fingerprints are all over it.
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Old 16th January 2011
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Preemptive warning:

We are not an political forum, so please don't let this topic end up in discussing politics or I will be forced to close this topic
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I was fascinated by several aspects of this story. 1)The chipset vulnerability which indicates that these were discretely and selectively replaced. 2) The detection by Symantec but once found no one really understood what it did. 3) Windows was the platform to refresh and diseminate the worm - you think people would learn. 4) The resources and collaboration that it took.
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For some info about the code quality see Stuxnet not such a masterpiece after all?
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Symantec has released a report on Stuxnet. Initial information at the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/sc....html?_r=1&hpw

The Symantec news release is here along with a link to the actual paper:
http://www.symantec.com/connect/fr/b...sier-available

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