J.T
06-30-2011, 09:27 PM
So... how long 'til one of these infects our power grid or something?
any of them in the U.S., are infected with what security researchers describe at internet security specialists Kaspersky Lab describe as an "indestructible" form of malware (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20075725-17/tdl-4-the-indestructible-botnet/). They are doing everything from taking down websites with Ddos attacks to acting as a conduit for up to 30 other pieces of malware. This malware, known as TDL4, deploys a number of clever tricks to guarantee its own survival, including one borrowed straight from the world's most sophisticated cyberweapon, stuxnet.
Stuxnet was almost certainly a joint U.S. / Israeli creation (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html) aimed at damaging the Iranian nuclear weapons program, which it did, by destroying a thousand centrifuges (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/with-stuxnet-did-the-u-s-and-israel-create-a-new-cyberwar-era/) used for uranium enrichment.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26957/
any of them in the U.S., are infected with what security researchers describe at internet security specialists Kaspersky Lab describe as an "indestructible" form of malware (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20075725-17/tdl-4-the-indestructible-botnet/). They are doing everything from taking down websites with Ddos attacks to acting as a conduit for up to 30 other pieces of malware. This malware, known as TDL4, deploys a number of clever tricks to guarantee its own survival, including one borrowed straight from the world's most sophisticated cyberweapon, stuxnet.
Stuxnet was almost certainly a joint U.S. / Israeli creation (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html) aimed at damaging the Iranian nuclear weapons program, which it did, by destroying a thousand centrifuges (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/with-stuxnet-did-the-u-s-and-israel-create-a-new-cyberwar-era/) used for uranium enrichment.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26957/