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Stuxnet's Secret Twin
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- swashboon 13y agoWebsite requires registration/login to view content. No thanks.
- hangonhn 13y agoTry this link if you get hit with registration: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC8QqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foreignpolicy.com%2Farticles%2F2013%2F11%2F19%2Fstuxnets_secret_twin_iran_nukes_cyber_attack&ei=ffaMUuuKOIPuiQL9nYDwDg&usg=AFQjCNGFQ0XkzPz1DfHTsyARvAbCqssAGg&sig2=9mAX5PgUYUDDetuPvXd3rQ&bvm=bv.56643336,d.cGE https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
- thesimpsons1022 13y agothat one requires registration as well.
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- orenbarzilai 13y agodisplay:none; works like a charm
- Double_Cast 13y ago1. right-click paywall 2. "inspect element" 3. right-click highlighted html 4. "delete node" 5. ??? 6. profit
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- xfax 13y agoHere you go: http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/19/stuxnets_secret_twin_iran_nukes_cyber_attack http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.foreignpoli...
- D9u 13y agoThat link also presents a registration form. Thanks anyway.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoClick readability view on top and it will go away.
- nitrogen 13y agoYou can just right click the overlay, click Inspect Element, then delete the div that contains the overlay.
- cwal37 13y agoThis is incredibly interesting and extremely important. It has clear implications for infrastructure and security, particularly energy infrastructure which I am most interested in. This is the future of war.
- at-fates-hands 13y agoMy Dad used to write software for large technology companies. When he was with Control Data, they had just finished a huge project where they automated a ton of processed for the local energy company to make it more efficient. When I was in college and the internet got big I and I was touting all this cool stuff you could do, he told me about this project they did way back in the 70's. He said it terrified him at the time because it took the human element out of the equation. If something went wrong, it could do some serious damage. A misplaced decimal point here and it could basically bring down an entire region of the power grid. He always said the software was great, but it made the people using it lazy - which is where the real danger is.
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- ChuckMcM 13y agoThe original report, of which the Foreign Policy Article is a summary, is here: http://www.langner.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/To-kill-a-centrifuge.pdf http://www.langner.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/To-kill...
- bdamm 13y agoHere's the Foreign Policy Article, linked so there's no registration banner: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/19/stuxnets_secret_twin_iran_nukes_cyber_attack?page=0:0 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/19/stuxnets_se...
- vhost- 13y agoThanks! I was using firebug to kill the overlay.
- davidgerard 13y agoSerious question: Why THE FUCK are industrial controllers connected to the Internet still running Windows? What is going on here? Why did anyone ever think this was a good idea? Your customers may use Windows, but you don't code your site as a batch script ...
- tcoppi 13y agoIf you'd bother to read the article, you'd know that the infection vector was not direct Internet access to the affected systems.
- davidgerard 13y agoThe point stands.
- fragsworth 13y agoThey were able to connect to the centrifuges through the internal facility by infected machines. I remember reading that one of the methods Stuxnet used to transmit data through the facility between two infected machines that were not networked: sound cards and microphones.
- MichaelGG 13y agoCitation? A Google search for Stuxnet Microphone only has sentences saying it could activate and record; nothing about transferring data. The "BadBIOS" (apparent) hoax/delusion claims machines are using that vector, though.
- Zigurd 13y agoThey probably bribed an operator to carry in a usb stick.
- growupkids 13y agoOr the operator just didn't follow procedure and plugged it in. Work in an ICS environment for one week, and you'll see the probability of this happening is close to 100%. Most of these folks don't even know what a cyber attack even is, or even how it could happen let alone how to stop it. It's science fiction to them, they don't care because it's FICTION. As a friend in the industry one said once: the typical operator is a monkey: press the button get a banana. Horribly offensive, I admit, but I've unfortunately seen it myself. The human factor, that wonderful human factor will get you every, single time. Remember, these are people that have never even heard of a cyber attack except maybe in a movie or TV show, and even then they probably thought it was nonsense. They not only don't care, they don't even know they should care. It's all magic to them. The world is flat, and it makes sense because it's LOOKS flat.
- angrydev 13y agoReadability link: http://www.readability.com/articles/6ycbi4jx http://www.readability.com/articles/6ycbi4jx I highly recommend downloading this extension for websites with crappy overlays like this one!
- jafaku 13y agoI just removed the overlay with firebug :p But that's a great service, I didn't know I could use it without registering. I will use the bookmarklet from now on, thanks!
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 13y agoQ: How could governments get something so complex right? A: Trick question. Nice. Next question. -http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002040.html http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002040.html